Relicensing Krita as LGPLv2+

[Fazekas László]

Hello Boud,

For my parts I agree with the change.

But I think you need permissions from all of the contributors if you 
don't want to

violate the GPL license. And what if somebody copied third party GPLed 
code from somewhere?

Fazek


2017-01-05 10:13 keltezéssel, Boudewijn Rempt írta:
> Hi,
>
> Umpteenth draft of this mail, but I think we should consider relicensing
> the GPL code in Krita to LGPL.
>
> One reason is that now that Krita is on its own, the mix of LGPL library
> code inherited from koffice/calligra and GPL library code inherited from
> Krita makes it hard to move code around; like we just did in the svg
> branch, creating the kritacommand library from code from krita/image
> and libs/kundo2. That code needs to be relicensed to LGPL before we
> merge the branch, of course.
>
> Another reason is that there are too many macOS users who get confused
> when they install an application that's not in the app store, and we
> cannot publish GPL software in the app store. I wish I could just shrug
> that off, and I've done that until 3.1, but it's getting quite a
> support burden.
>
> I haven't found a script yet that will figure out who owns copyright
> on the original GPL'ed krita code only -- running things like git fame
> only works on the whole repo, most of which is LGPL already...
>