[Kde-pim] License change.

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Sat Jun 23 21:27:59 BST 2007


On Saturday 23 June 2007 17:14, Tom Albers wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Last time I send a mail regarding such a topic I  promised myself to
> never ever try a license change again.
>
> We are now faced with stalled development and frustration. In
> particular kpimidentities has the interest of both Mailody and for
> example Kopete. There is also interest in all the crypto things
> (kleo, kgpg & co), see the kde-commits thread of today.  I think one
> the strong things within KDE is the level of integration. The current
> situation is undermining that.
>
> So I would like to know how to proceed. I see a few options:
> 1) people agree with the GPL->LGPL requests
> 2) we lift the LGPL requirement for kdepimlibs
> 3) we create a kdepimlibs-gpl with gpl libraries
>
> Personally I don't need it to be LGPL so I would go for option 2 and
> let the parties who do require LGPL to worry about needed license
> changes.

I don't think 1) is an option for the crypto stuff (but you can of 
course ask Marc :-) ). I am very much in favor of 3).

Regards,
Ingo
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