kdevplatform mixed licences

David Faure faure at kde.org
Tue Jun 11 11:03:57 BST 2013


Le lundi 10 juin 2013 18:20:16 Jonathan Riddell a écrit :
> KDevplatform has files which don't follow the KDE licencing policy of
> (L)GPL2+
> 
> shell/ has files which are GPL 2 only
> while
> plugins/subversion/kdevsvncpp is GPL 3+
> 
> they don't link together directly but they are a derived work of the same
> library so it's a bit of a legal grey area whether they can be distributed
> together.
> 
> David F, Till and Manuel may I relicence your files in kdevplatform/shell/
> to from GPL 2 only to GPL 2 or later?  There's also a file which is
> copyright KDAB, David and Till are you able to grant me permission to
> relicence this?

Ah, this is the "progress widget" stuff which got copied from KMail, I see.
I was wondering when I contributed to kdevelop :-)

Yes, no problem for using GPL 2-or-later instead of GPL 2, both for my 
contributions and for the 'copyright KDAB' file.

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