Changing the licence of parley's editor model classes from GPL to LGPL

Jeremy Whiting jpwhiting at kde.org
Wed May 27 18:41:03 UTC 2015


Hello,

If you are receiving this e-mail please let us know if you are ok with
relicensing the code in parley under the LGPL license (or ask to have
your kde identity username to the relicense.pl script so nobody bugs
you about this sort of thing in the future).

thanks,
Jeremy

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:57 AM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
> A good idea is to check the relicense.pl script in kde-dev-scripts. It
> contains a list of anyone who has authorized license changes on their code.
> It lists Albert, myself, frederik at least as being ok with relicensing from
> GPL to LGPL. I didn't go through the list of committers, but you can check
> that against the names in that script and if everyone is in there, go ahead.
> If not, e-mail directly the one(s) who aren't already listed to get their
> ok. identity.kde.org will help map names to kde account names.
>
> BR,
> Jeremy
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> El Diumenge, 15 de març de 2015, a les 15:17:30, Rahul Chowdhury va
>> escriure:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I, and Inge Wallin ( CC'ed in this email ),
>> > have been working on a project on moving
>> > the editor of parley into libkeduvocdocument.
>> > For that we have moved the model classes of
>> > parley's editor into keduvoc, and used them in
>> > the entire codebase of parley instead of the
>> > old model classes.
>> >
>> > But on doing so we have encountered a problem.
>> > The old model classes of parley are GPL'ed ,
>> > but the rest of the keduvoc classes are LGPL.
>> > I think it would be better if the rest of the model classes
>> > are also changed accordingly.
>> > We would like to hear your suggestions on the same.
>> >
>> > The branches of libkeduvocdocument and parley
>> > where the task is implemented has been put up
>> > on reviewboard, please find the links to them below
>> > if you want to take a look :-
>> > [1] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122877/
>> > [2] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122878/
>> >
>> > I have tried to get a list of all the people who
>> > have worked on the old model classes,
>> > and here is what I have come up with-
>> >
>> >   * Frederik Gladhorn
>> >   * Amarvir Singh
>> >   * Avgoustinos Kadis    * Javier Goday    * Daniel Laidig
>> >   * Andreas Xavier
>> >   * David Capel
>> >   * Christian Muschick
>> >   * Albert Astals Cid
>>
>> You'll have to get agreement from all of them to relicense.
>>
>> Since I'm on the list, it's fine for me.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks and Regards,
>> >
>> > Rahul Chowdhury
>> > ( rahulch in IRC )
>>
>>
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