Kritacolor library re-licensing

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 16 June 2006 13:30, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Friday 09 June 2006 22:13, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > The kritacolor library and some of the associated plugins are now
> > licensed under the GPL. We really want to provide this functionality for
> > all of KOffice 2.0, and for that, we need to relicense to LGPL. I'm
> > hereby officially asking for the consent of all the people who have their
> > bit of code in these files for doing so.
>
> Given that:
>
> 1. some other code in Krita is GPL derived and relicensing is out of your
> control
>
> 2. the kritacolor code was linked to this code at some point

It's the other way around -- the krita code is linked to kritacolor.

> What are the chances of relicensing the rest of Krita to LGPL, given that
> Patrick Julien seems to have become reachable?

Small to non-existent. I prefer GPL above LGPL myself -- this relicensing is 
just to conform to KOffice rules, not out of any real desire to do so on my 
part. And I'm not the only GPL zealot in Krita's team :-)

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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