KItemModels, Solid & KJS licenses

Ivan Čukić ivan.cukic at kde.org
Thu Feb 27 15:18:15 UTC 2014


> other files: Ivan Čukić.  Touched by me (not enough for me to hold any
> copyright, though)

@Shumski : to repeat my answer on IRC, you have my permission to change to
LGPL



On 26 February 2014 18:42, Alex Merry <alex.merry at kde.org> wrote:

> On 20/02/14 11:41, Alex Merry wrote:
> >> [1] https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/223061
> >
> > KItemModels
> >
> > kcheckableproxymodel.(cpp|h) is Stephen Kelly (and, for safety, David
> > Faure).
>
> Changed.
>
> > modeltest.(cpp|h) were taken from Qt Concurrent, and subsequently
> > modified by Stephen Kelly, and touched by David Faure and Aurélien
> > Gâteau (but I don't think the latter two count as copyright holders,
> > judging from the commit messages).
>
> So we can't just relicense this, because it is forked from a GPL-only
> file, and Digia have only public LGPL-licensed a later version of it.
> Just dropping in the new (LGPLv2.1) file seems to work, though.  That,
> however, means that this code is LGPLv2, rather than LGPLv2+.
>
> > David is on record as being happy with relicensing to LGPLv2+ (with or
> > without the e.V. clause) - see relicensecheck.pl in kde:kde-dev-scripts.
> >
> >> [1] https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/223093
> >
> > KJS
> >
> > propertydescriptor.(cpp|h) is Bernd Buschinski.  Possibly also David
> > Faure (although, as already noted, David's code is not an issue).  git
> > log runs out early, though, so more investigation might be needed.
>
> Changed.
>
> >> [1] https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/223081
> >
> > Solid
> >
> > predicate_parser.(c|h) are false positives (Bison-generated; the
> > skeleton has a license exception).
> >
> > other files: Ivan Čukić.  Touched by me (not enough for me to hold any
> > copyright, though) and Volker Krause (arguably the same, but he's on
> > record as being happy with LGPLv2+ anyway, although without the e.V.
> > clause).
>
> Still waiting.
>
> Alex
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Ivan

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