License Statement Clarification in KArchive

[David Faure]

On mercredi 5 février 2020 18:43:10 CET Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> during the SPDX license marker introduction into KArchive we found the
> following two files in KArchive with ambiguous license statements, which mix
> LGPL and GPL terms:
> 
> https://cgit.kde.org/karchive.git/tree/src/krcc.cpp
> https://cgit.kde.org/karchive.git/tree/src/krcc.h

I'm confused. Where does this include GPL terms?

It says "Library General Public License" twice.

I only see "act as a proxy as in section 14 of the GPLv3" mentioning the GPL
but that's just a reference to one notion in the GPL, it doesn't make the file 
GPL -- and I thought this was the standard way to express what 
relicensecheck.pl calls "lgplv23+eV" ?

> For both files you are listed as the only copyright holder and I reviewed
> that all other changes seem to be below the border of copyright holding.
> Can you clarify the meaning of the license and/or comment in the follow
> https://phabricator.kde.org/D27104 ?
> 
> My suggested reading of this license is:
> 
> SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-only OR LGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-KDE-
> Accepted-LGPL
 
I don't know SPDX but this seems right to me.

Unless I'm missing something, you'll find a TON of other files all over KDE 
source code using that exact same header.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5