[Kde-games-devel] GPL licenses in games, especially kigo

[Sascha Peilicke]

Am 10.09.2012 19:32, schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El Dilluns, 10 de setembre de 2012, a les 08:33:24, Wolfgang Rohdewald va
> escriure:
>> Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 08:14:38 schrieb Sascha Peilicke:
>>> I fear the KDE wiki isn't exact on the specific terms. It all depends on
>>> the combination:
>>> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
>>>
>>> kdelibs should be still LGPLv2+, to which GPLv3 (even 'only') is
>>> compatible.
>
> No, you are not right, we do not allow GPLv3 code in KDE, not because it's not
> "legal" but because we do not allow it.
I am sorry, it seems like I must have missed that back then. 
Unfortunately, I can't recall that _we_ ever made that decision.

> If kigo went in being GPL3, that's a big mistake of whoever did the review.
Albert, this game was discussed as any other on the kdegames list, 
stayed it's two weeks in review and nobody complained. Even if we have 
such a rule, I doubt it's value. It's an application, not a library.

> But it has to be changed to one of the license combinations Wolfgang said.
And as I replied to him, I'm totally fine with relicensing (to whatever 
FSF license our intellectual purity rules will fit to) and I added my 
statement to the relicensing wiki page. Sorry that I can't suppress the 
image that comes to my mind:

<flame-ahead>
A sinking ship and the crew decides to order queues to the rescue boats 
by age and surname.
</everybody-dead>

>
> Cheers,
>    Albert
>
>> so everything should be all right - I will leave it as is. I am not a
>> license specialist - if I can keep it that way, I will be happier.

p.s.: Please do whatever you see fit, I lost interest in such 
discussions a long time ago.
-- 
Viele Grüße,
Sascha