[Kget] Relicense GPLv2 only files in KGet

[Manolo Valdes]

El Thursday 08 November 2007 12:41:56 pm Urs Wolfer escribió:

no problems :)

cheers
Manolito


> Hi all
>
> I have had a discussion some time ago with Dirk Mueller concerning GPL
> version 2 _only_ licensed files. As I know, there is quite a lot of KGet
> code GPLv2 only licensed. Almost all (or all?) files initially written by
> Dario are affected.
>
> Why should we do this step? Dirk has explained to me that GPLv2 only is no
> problem in the current situation. But what happens when Qt will be released
> unter GPLv3 only? Or any other lib we link against? There would be legal
> issues... At the moment, many people are relicensing their code in KDE SVN.
>
> In order to prevent this situation, it would be great if we could relicense
> all these files right now. But: Of course, everybody, who has a copyright
> on such files, needs to agee on this. I don't want to have a look at every
> single file to see who owns the / a copy of it if not necessary now. Would
> be great if just everybody who owns a copyright on a file in KGet which is
> GPLv2 only could reply to this message and clearly state that he agrees on
> this (please on this public mailing list).
>
> People that are for sure affected:
> * Dario Massarin
> * Manolo Valdes
> * Javier Goday
> * Urs Wolfer
>
> If everybody agrees, I would like to relicense GPLv2 only files to GPLv2+.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bye
> urs



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