kdevplatform mixed licences

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 07:55:49PM +0200, Aleix Pol wrote:
> >    * GPL 3+ code: That's just the subversion support. If nobody sees a
> better
> >    solution, I'd move it to playground and extragear and let the users
> decide
> >    if they want to have it. We can add a warning or something on the
> README
> >    or cmake output.
>
> Yeah that would work, I guess you'd have to judge if this would be a
> notable loss for kdevelop.
>
> >    * GPL 2 only code: As far as I understand it's only a matter of having
> >    KDAB's code relicensed, which David already did, so we can move it
> forward
> >    already? Or we need Manuel?
>
> I think it does need Manuel who seems to have disappeared sometime around
> 2009 :(
>
> >    * LGPL 2 code: I'm unsure why it's a problem. It's because we should
> >    change them to LGPL2+, right?
>
> It's not a problem to distribute it, it just doesn't comply with KDE
> licence policy which is designed to keep the number of licences to a
> minimum so any code sharing doesn't have to think too hard about
> it. interestingly LGPL 2 allows for GPL2+ so it's mostly about just
> making it easy on any coders who would have to care if they borrowed
> the code.
>
> Jonathan
>

Hi,
I moved the code from kdepim/libkdepim back to kdevplatform and now I could
change the license to LGPL 2+.

I think this leaves the only issue the svn plugin, which should be
removed/disabled before the next version.

Aleix
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