KDE: Kate text editor relicensing (please read)
Christoph Cullmann
christoph at cullmann.io
Fri Nov 15 19:57:39 GMT 2019
On 2019-11-13 04:57, Svyatoslav Kuzmich wrote:
> Hi Dominik,
>
> Sorry for the delayed response.
>
> I agree to relicense my Kate contributions to [L]GPLv2+.
Thanks a lot!
Greetings
Christoph
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 5:32 PM Dominik Haumann <dhaumann at kde.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Svyatoslav,
>>
>> Kate is mostly licensed LGPLv2+ (or GPLv2+). Some of your
>> contributions were back then made in some v2-only files. And mixing
>> v2-only with [L]GPLv3 code increasingly is problematic for us.
>>
>> Christoph already asked some time ago, if you (and some others)
>> agree
>> to change the license to [L]GPLv2+, so that the licensing issues can
>> be resolved, see:
>>
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kwrite-devel/2019-November/005811.html
>>
>> So do you agree to relicense your contributions to [L]GPLv2+?
>>
>> That would help us a lot, especially since the OK is missing just
>> form
>> you (and two others)!
>>
>> Please answer with kwrite-devel at kde.org in CC, so that we have this
>> documented in public.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Dominik
>
> --
>
> Svyatoslav Kuzmich
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