D27245: Ki18n: Convert license headers to SPDX statements

[Andreas Cord-Landwehr]

cordlandwehr added a comment.


  In D27245#614915 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D27245#614915>, @kossebau wrote:
  
  > What about the `COPYING.LIB` file (containing LGLP 2.1 text) in the root directory? Could that not be removed given the new copy `LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-only.txt`?
  >  Or are both copies required? If so, why? Similar question also for any other repo.
  
  
  I agree, this file is obsolete. Yet, I did not touch it in any of the pull requests for the following reasons:
  
  - Several of the COPYING.LIB files are stating the wrong license revision, since we have frameworks that are only licensed LGPL-2.0 (as a common denominator)
  - This COPYING file is (in my perception) also understood as the outbound license of the whole library/application. Yet, this is a topic I only want to approach in a second step after clarifying the used licenses. The whole statement of the outbound license of a library is actually not defined yet AFAIS.
  - I just created a ticket for REUSE (https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-docs/issues/56) and asking for clarification, mostly because the GPL HowTo suggests to adding this file (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html).
  
  I will created another work item on the KF6 board for tracking the COPYING file handling, such that this does not block the progress for the SPDX identifier introduction.

REPOSITORY
  R249 KI18n

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D27245

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