Baloo Framework - License Exception

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at kde.org> wrote:
>
> > Albert is right, Baloo is LGPL but the resulting binaries will be GPL.
>
> Again, this serves no purpose other than 'we are using LGPL' since
> libbaloo clients can not be non-free - they will have to link to the GPL
> binary.
>
> I'd rather have an exception to the rule than having something that will
> confuse the library users even more - it is LGPL, but I can not use it from
> non-GPL code.
>
>
If we make Baloo GPL and then happen to change the database used we would
have to relicense all of Baloo. That would be a lot of admin work
contacting all developers.

David
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