[Kde-pim] KMail License issues.

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi Bertjan,

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 11:02:02 Bertjan Broeksema wrote:
> As you may have seen I'm taking a stab at the krazy issues in KMail.

Again, thanks for that!

> One of the main issues are the licenses used (or not) in the code. To be 
> more precise:
>
> -  55 files don't have a license at all
> - 157 files have an incompatible license with Qt or KDE.
>
> Besides that there are a whole bunch of copyright statements missing or
> having no email address.
>
> If you have any hint on what would be an appropriate approach to bring down
> this issues to a minimum please let me know.

Well, the only way to do that is to ask _all_ contributers to those files to 
relicense the code to something GPL3-compatible. On 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing, you can see who already 
agreed to a relicense (for the record: Ingo Klöcker and Don Sanders also 
agreed in private mail).
Tom had an excellent page on http://toma.kovoks.nl/kde/, showing exactly who 
needed to agree to which license to be able to relicense a specific file.

So the only way to fix this is to track the people down and ask them for their 
agreement wrt relicening.

Regards,
Thomas
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