Baloo Framework - License Exception

[Milian Wolff]

On Thursday 18 December 2014 12:43:18 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > May I ask the question why Baloo should become a framework in the first
> > place?
> > On Windows or Mac, people won't use it anyways, no? Or is it required
> > there
> > for e.g. searches in KMail?
> 
> * Windows and Mac people should be using the search indexes already present
> there.
> * Baloo is used as a library by - Plasma, KRunner, Dolphin and GwenView. It
> would be good to give it API + ABI guarantees. While I agree it doesn't
> need to be a framework for this, nothing really has to be a framework. We
> all can just release software independently.
> * I'm hoping that other desktop environments might want to think about use
> it. We don't have many file searching solutions in the linux world. Again,
> it doesn't need to be a framework to do this. However, releasing it as part
> of Plasma does make it appear to be more tightly bound to Plasma.
> * I like the 1 month cycles that Frameworks follows.
> * It isn't required for KMail any more. It's purely for file searching +
> indexing.
> 
> Anyway, I guess I could possibly just move Baloo to extragear and start
> doing 1 month releases on my own. But it would be taxing.

Thanks for the answer, Vishesh. These are valid reasons, imo, esp. when 
thinking about other desktop environments.

Cheers

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Milian Wolff
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