R: Re: kartesio

[LucaTringali]

Oops, I thought that GPL3 was compatible with GPL2. I'm changing the licence 
right now.

Luca Tringali

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: cordlandwehr at kde.org
>Data: 10/05/2013 10.54
>A: <kde-edu at kde.org>, "LucaTringali"<TRINGALINVENT at libero.it>
>Ogg: Re: kartesio
>
>On Monday 06 May 2013 22:11:06 LucaTringali wrote:
>> Hello,after some work I published the first stable release of Kartesio, a 
>program for calculating best fit curves with experimental 
>points:https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/edu/kartesioThe program 
>works well (obiously there are some other features I will introduce in 
future 
>releases), and I think it could be moved out from playground, into the 
stable 
>kde-edu branch. I'm writing this email for three reasons: the first is that 
I 
>don't know how to move Kartesio into the stable branch (maybe it needs your 
>approval?). The second one is to tell that anyone's contribute in developing 
>this software will be obiously appreciated. The third is just to let you 
know 
>this program: if you work in a lab, you may need to calculate best fit 
curves, 
>and Kartesio could interest you. I, for example, study chemistry and I 
already 
>used Kartesio for some laboratory reports.I would love to hear your opinions 
>about it.
>> P.S.: If you just want to have an idea, in the git repo there are some 
>screenshots of kartesio fitting a line and a parabola using a regression 
>algorithm and a neural network.
>> Luca Tringali 
>
>Hi Luca, I spotted some problems with the used licenses in Kartesio. In all 
>the files I looked yet, the GPL 3+ license is used. Yet, the KDE license 
policy 
>[1] says that all code must be licensed such that it is compatible to GPL 
2+, 
>Unfortunately this is not the case for GPL 3+.
>
>A possible solution would be to re-license the code to "GPL version 2 or 
>version 3 or any later version". If you want to re-license the code, AFAIK 
the 
>sysadmins would like to archive information about this re-licensing 
procedure 
>[2].
>
>Greetings,
>Andreas
>
>[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
>[2] http://sysadmin.kde.org/services/code-repositories/relicensing/
>