Relicensing Krita as LGPLv2+

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Ok for me too, even If I dislike Apple policy on this subject.


Le 05. 01. 17 à 18:51, Wolthera a écrit :
> LGPL's big thing is the linking stuff, right?
>
>
> Yeah, this is fine by me.
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Alvin Wong 
> <alvinhochun+krita at gmail.com <mailto:alvinhochun+krita at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Boud,
>
>     I'm fine with relicensing my few lines of contributions to LGPL.
>
>     Regards,
>     Alvin
>
>     P.S. Please note that my commit email address doesn't have `+krita` in
>     it in case if you're checking the commit log.
>
>     2017-01-05 17:13 GMT+08:00 Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org
>     <mailto:boud at valdyas.org>>:
>     > 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...
>     >
>     > --
>     > Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Wolthera

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