Baloo Framework - License Exception

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Tue Dec 16 15:00:01 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 16 December 2014 14:02:18 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> 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. :)
 
+1

Cheers,
Martin
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