KTextEditor & Kate Licensing

[Christoph Cullmann]

On 2019-11-24 17:21, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm okay with relicensing any of my code in KTextEditor and Kate as
> LGPLv2+.
> 
> (Sorry for the late response, I don't use this email account much
> anymore.)
> 
> Cheers, and thanks for your continuing work on Kate & Co.,
> - Jakob Petsovits

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the ok!

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. November 2019 um 14:25 Uhr
> Von: "Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann" <cullmann at absint.com>
> An: "Jakob Petsovits" <jpetso at gmx.at>, "Wang Kai"
> <zealot.hoi at gmail.com>, "Andrey Matveyakin" <a.matveyakin at gmail.com>
> Betreff: KTextEditor & Kate Licensing
> Hi,
> 
> more than 80% of KTextEditor and Kate are LGPLv2+.
> 
> We would like to equalize the licensing of all files.
> 
> Would you be ok to re-license your contributions to LGPLv2+?
> By "accident" some files were just v2 since some years :/
> 
> A simple reply to this mail is enough for this.
> (please add kwrite-devel at kde.org to CC)
> 
> This would make maintaining KTextEditor & Kate in in future much
> easier, given the rise of more and more incompatible licensing schemes
> everywhere. My fault for adding the "only v2" clause to a lot of files
> 10 years ago :/
> 
> Greetings
> Christoph

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