[Kde-pim] PIM Libraries Shuffle (Was: License changes)

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 24 June 2007 22:16, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Sunday 24 June 2007 11:51:33 am Till Adam wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 June 2007 17:30, Allen Winter wrote:
> > > On Sunday 24 June 2007 11:08:29 am Till Adam wrote:
> > > > For the record, Marc's opinion on the various libs involved, as
> > > > previously stated by him in signed emails, and just confirmed
> > > > with him by me in direct conversation:
> > > >
> > > > gpgme++: currently GPL, can be relicenced to LGPL, to be the
> > > > same as gpgme itself
> > > > qgpgme: same
> > > > libkpimidentities: no strong opinion, whatever we think is
> > > > fine, can thus become LGPL
> > > > libkleo: remains GPL, can be moved to kdepimlibs-gpl, if
> > > > required
> > >
> > > Till,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the definitive answer.  I will update the
> > > kdepimlibs/PLAN doc.
> > >
> > > Also, just for the record, please indicate that this means all
> > > files copyrighted by KDAB and/or by Marc himself.
> >
> > In the mentioned libraries, yes.
>
> Unfortunately, due to the library dependencies, relicensing and
> moving libkpimidentities to the kdepimlibs won't be possible since
> that library depends on libkleo.

It should be pretty easy to remove this dependency. It's really only 
Kleo::CryptoMessageFormat. I propose to make KPIM::Identity extensible 
with custom properties (QVariantMap). Then the preferred crypto message 
format could simply become a custom property that is known to Identity 
as a simple QString or QByteArray. The conversion from 
QString/QByteArray is then simply done with 
Kleo::stringToCryptoMessageFormat() where the value is actually needed.

In fact, we could convert a lot of the more esoteric properties to 
custom properties, e.g. m*Key, mFcc, mDrafts, mTemplates, mTransport, 
mDictionary, mXFace, mXFaceEnabled, mBcc. This would make the interface 
much nicer and more generic.

Sounds like a nice little junior project.

Regards,
Ingo
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