[Kde-finance-apps] small license problem in kdelibs

[Alvaro Soliverez]

No objections from me.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> as a matter of fact, some libalkimia files are also subject to this
> inconsistency. Thanks to Marco for sharing the informaiton.
>
> I expect that adding 'Lesser' to "GNU General Public License" where
> applicable
> is OK for all files in the alkimia repository.
>
> I will take care of cleaning things up in the next couple of days unless
> one
> of the copyright holders objects.
>
>
>
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>
> Subject: small license problem in kdelibs
> Date: Monday 26 September 2011
> From: Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>
> To: "kdelibs" <kde-core-devel at kde.org>
>
> Hi all,
>
> last days, after we asked some more pair of eyes to check the licensing in
> plasma active, a thing was discovered: many LGPL licensed files had an
> header
> like that (you know, power of copy and paste ;)
>
> /*
> *   Copyright 2010 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>
> *
> *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> *   it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
> *   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or
> *   (at your option) any later version.
> *
> *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> *   GNU General Public License for more details
> *
> *   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
> *   License along with this program; if not, write to the
> *   Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> *   51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
> */
>
> as you note, talks about library general public license, then
> ...PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details
>
> while it should be
>
> ...PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Library General Public License for more
> details
>
> i guess it's an issue that krazy doesn't detect.
>
> from a quick scan around kdelibs seems there are plenty of files in kdelibs
> with this same problem as well.
> we are starting to correct it in libplasma, but ideally all should get
> corrected, since even if minor licensing issue, is still a license issue ;)
>
> so, if you are/feel responsible for a particular kdelibs piece, please take
> a
> look if the wording is consistent,
> so if is LGPL 2.0 (or 2.0 or later) it always talks about Library and if is
> 2.1 always talks about Lesser
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
>
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>
> Regards
>
> Thomas Baumgart
>
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