Baloo Framework - License Exception

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Tue Dec 16 13:02:18 UTC 2014


On Monday, December 15, 2014 19:48:30 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not advocating changing the library headers to GPL*, just not saying
> the library is LGPL, when it can not be *used* as an LGPL library.

Ow, maybe I haven't made myself clear. Let's try again:

- If it's effectively GPL-licensed, it should not be a proper Framework

- Even if headers are marked as LGPL, it should be very clear that the 
effective license at this stage is GPL


So what Ivan says. :)

Cheers,
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sebas

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