License clarification in messagelib #2

[Volker Krause]

Thanks for looking into this! I'm certainly fine with any of the proposed 
solution, preferably LGPLv2+, as we need to get rid of the remaining GPLv2-
only cases sooner or later anyway I think.

Regards,
Volker

On Monday, 29 June 2020 20:57:35 CEST Christophe Giboudeaux wrote:
> Sandro, Volker,
> 
> While converting to SPDX format, I found 3 problematic files:
> 
> messageviewer/src/messagepartthemes/default/autotests/rendertest.h for which
> you're both copyright owners,
> 
> messageviewer/src/messagepartthemes/default/autotests/showonlymimeparttest.
> {cpp,h} whose copyright holder is Sandro.
> 
> These file state they are GPL-2.0-only or any version approved by KDE e.V.
> according to the GPL-3.0 license.
> 
> Problem: As these files are originally only GPL-2.0-only, the GPL-3.0 proxy
> section cannot be invoked.
> 
> I see three possible solutions:
> - relicense these files to GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only or any other version
> approved by the KDE e.V
> 
> - relicense them to something else
> According to the relicensecheck script output, these files could become LGPL
> (with or without the e.V. clause)
> 
> - Drop the e.V. clause since it cannot be invoked for these files.
> 
> Christophe