libkdepim relicensing

Kevin Ottens ervin at kde.org
Sun Jul 2 01:34:53 BST 2017


Hello,

Sorry to bother you again with the matter below. I got replies from all the 
people necessary except two! It would be nice if you could spare a few minutes 
of your time to deal with the couple of questions in the following email so 
that we can move on.

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

On Saturday, 10 June 2017 15:00:46 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> You have contributed in the past to one or more of the following files
> inside of libkdepim:
>  * addressline/addresseelineedit_p.cpp
>  * addressline/addresseelineedit_p.h
>  * addressline/addresseelineeditstatic.cpp
>  * addressline/addresseelineeditstatic.h
>  * completionorder/completionordereditor.cpp
>  * completionorder/completionordereditor.h
>  * recentaddress/recentaddresses.cpp
>  * recentaddress/recentaddresses.h
> 
> They are currently licensed as GPLv2 only. It turns out the community would
> have a need to use them under the GPLv3. This is why I'm sending you this
> email for which I would need "yes/no" answers to a few questions. This way,
> we should hopefully be able to unblock ourselves on the files listed above
> and help us know what to do for your other contributions shall the need to
> relicense them arise.
> 
>  1) Are you okay with relicensing your contributions done under "GPLv2" to
> "GPLv2 or later"?
> 
>  2) Are you okay with relicensing your contributions done under "GPLv2" to
> "GPLv2 or GPLv3" ?
> 
>  3) Are you okay with relicensing your contributions done under "LGPLv2" to
> "LGPLv2 or later"?
> 
>  4) Are you okay with relicensing your contributions done under "LGPLv2" to
> "LGPLv2 or LGPLv3"?
> 
>  5) Are you okay with the KDE e.V. deciding on a future licensing change to
> your code, should that be necessary?
> 
> 
> Looking forward to your replies. Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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