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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