License clarification in messagelib #2

[Sandro Knauß]

Moin,

> 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.

+1 I'm also fine with re licensing the files.

Regards,

sandro

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> 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

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