License clarification in messagelib

Thomas McGuire thomas.mcguire at gmx.net
Sun Jun 28 08:50:21 BST 2020


Hi Christophe,

On 25.06.20 22:37, Christophe Giboudeaux wrote:
> While converting the messagelib license headers to SPDX format, some files
> were marked as ambiguous by the conversion tool.
>
> Some files you wrote long ago need some clarification. [1]
> The license header states the files are LGPL-2.0-only or LGPL-3.0-only but
> have an incorrect KDE e.V. clause, ie:
> « at the discretion of KDE e.V. ( which shall act as a proxy as in section 14
> of the GPLv3 ), any later version. »
>
> As these files are LGPL, the correct e.V. clause shall be:
> « or any later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its
> successor approved by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall
> act as a proxy defined in Section 6 of version 3 of the license. »
>
> Are you ok if I make these changes to the files listed below?

Yes, I'm ok with you making these changes. Thanks for cleaning up the
license situation and converting to SPDX.

Regards,
Thomas


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