[Kde-pim] RFC: Add Working Week and Day of Pray to KLocale

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 07 November 2008, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2008 4:43:07 pm Percy Camilo Triveño Aucahuasi 
wrote:
> > >Going further, I'm sure many users would want
> > >to see their locale's public holidays displayed
> > >as well in things like the panel clock/calendar,
> > >and even their full PIM data.
> >
> > Hell yeah, great idea ;).
> >
> > Allen Winter wrote:
> > >No, libkholidays is in kdepim.
> > >And it can't move to kdepimlibs
> > >due to licensing issues.
> >
> > I made a quick view in kdepimlibs and libkholidays and It seems
> > that both sources were released as GPL2 ... please, could someone
> > explain me in more detail about the licensing issues? ;).
>
> The central part of libkholidays is the code we borrowed many years
> ago from a project called "Plan".  This is the code that parses the
> holidays files. See scanholiday and parseholiday.
>
> AFAIR that code was released under the GPL.
>
> Problem is: we have a requirement for LGPL in kdepimlibs.
> So we can't move without relicensing the code or relaxing the
> licensing.
>
> But, there are several other GPL libs in kdepim that really need to
> move into kdepimlibs. I need to see if we can relax the licensing for
> kdepimlibs.  I'll work this.

FWIW, during this year's Osnabrück KDE PIM meeting we shortly discussed 
the licensing policy for kdepimlibs and we agreed that we want to allow 
GPL'd libraries for KDE PIM if the need arises. We also agreed that 
those libraries should not be put into kdepimlibs, but that they should 
be put into a package of its own, because mixing LPGL'd and GPL'd 
libraries in kdepimlibs would cause headaches for many people.


Regards,
Ingo
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