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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 11 de setembre de 2012, a les 07:58:31, Sascha Peilicke va 
escriure:
> 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. 

I know, and it is sad noone noticed.

> Even if we have
> such a rule, I doubt it's value. It's an application, not a library.

On the contrary, it has huge value, by guaranting all code in all of the KDE 
repos use the same licenses (GPLv2+) it guarantees i can go and get code from 
kigo and implement it in any of the other KDE games or KDE applications 
without breaking the license. Right now any code that first goes to kigo and 
then to other kdegame (like let's say some porting to some new framework) is 
potentially in breach of the licenses of those other games.

> 
> > 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.

Thanks, I'll see which other people has commited to kigo and try to get their 
agreement in a relicensement to GPLv2+ (which i understand it's ok with you if 
i read http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing correctly).

Cheers,
  Albert