KGeoTag license headers

Tobias Leupold tl at stonemx.de
Sat Jul 16 11:12:19 BST 2022


Hi list!

I recently got some mail about license header changes I did some time ago to 
files I added to KPhotoAlbum (without thinking about it too much) that weren't 
meaningful.

I looked at the KGeoTag sources, and currently we have

    "GPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL"

If I get this correctly, this isn't meaningful as well, because: "GPL-3.0-or-
later" implies that the user can choose a later GPL version if he wants to. In 
contrast, "LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL" says that the project is licensed as 
GPL 3 (without "later"), or a later version of the GPL, with the restriction 
that KDE e.V. has to approve this license. Otherwise, only GPL 3 is possible.

As we're KDE guys and KGeoTag is a KDE project, I think it's meaningful to let 
KDE e.V. decide if a later version of the GPL matches our goals. But with the 
current headers, we bypass this restriction, as "GPL-3.0-or-later" already 
lets the user decide to use any later GPL version.

Thus, the way more meaningful license would be

    "GPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL"

As far as I can grasp it, relevant contributions to KGeoTag's code only came 
from me, Johannes Zarl-Zierl and Isaac Wismer (or did I forget anybody?!). So: 
Do you consent to change KGeoTag's license headers from

    "GPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL"

to

    "GPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL"

(where this applies)?

Cheers, Tobias




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