KItemModels, Solid & KJS licenses

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 7 d'abril de 2014, a les 22:24:44, šumski va escriure:
> On Wednesday 19 of February 2014 21:18:31 šumski wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > i've started pushing Frameworks to openSUSE Factory (i.e. next openSUSE
> > release), and our legal review found some issues[1][2][3] with mentioned
> > frameworks licenses.
> > ...
> 
> Last items =)
> KRunner and KActivities are missing COPYING(.LIB), but the 'biggest'
> remaining issue is kde4support, quote:
> 
> "The spec file states only that the package is LGPL-2.1+ licensed. Indeed,
> the predominant license in the source code files does appear to be
> LGPL-2.1. However, there are instances of other licenses. If this cpp code
> is compiled with the rest of the LGPL-2.1+ licensed kde4support code, it
> could be said that the resulting work must be licensed under the GPL-2.0 -
> this would have a material effect on the overall license of kdesupport4."
> 
> Should kde4support be declared as GPL-2.0?

That's a bit weird, kdelibs has always (afaicr) been LGPL-compatible (i.e. 
LPGL or BSD/MIT, etc). so why would we have to declare kde4support (a subset 
of kdelibs) GPL-2?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> TIA, and cheers,
> Hrvoje