ktp-common-internals license issue

[Martin Klapetek]

Hey,

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Diane Trout <diane at ghic.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Scott Kitterman pointed out that ktp-common-internals has a serious license
> problem. The code otp-proxy is licensed "GPL-2.1+", and unfortunately that
> license doesn't exist. I tried emailing the author Marcin Ziemiński a week
> or
> two ago but didn't hear back.
>
> Is there a way we could push it to one of the other existing licenses? Or
> does
> someone know how to get in touch with the author to pick a defined license?
>

I would say if it uses a license which is non-existing/invalid, that
should be enough to warrant a change by us, no? But, IANAL.


> Scott also thinks that since there's GPL-2 and GPL-3 licensed things the
> full
> text of the various licenses should be included. E.g. having a COPYING.LIB
> and
> COPYING and maybe a COPYING.v2.
>
> And if by some chance you want to see what files are under which license...
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-kde/kde-extras/kde-telepathy/ktp-common-internals.git/tree/debian/copyright


In the same thread from May this year, both Dan and David agreed
to have their stuff relincesed to whatever, so I'd just make it all
LGPLv2.1+, which is what we've all agreed back in time (can't
find any references though).

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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