libplasma GPL files

Laurent Montel montel at kde.org
Sun Sep 7 13:07:51 CEST 2008


On Sunday 07 September 2008 12:42:28 Alex Merry wrote:
> On Sunday 07 September 2008 09:01:10 Marco Martin wrote:
> > On 9/7/08, Davide Bettio <davide.bettio at kdemail.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  I think that we should change the license of the list below of files
> > > from GPL to LGPL:
> >
> > yeah, mixing licenses of sources that gets in the same binary don't
> > make like illegal to distribute the binary or something like that?
>
> Not in this case.  It just makes libplasma GPL-licensed.  Which is
> definitely not what we want.
>
> We need permission to relicense these from:
> Alexis Ménard
> Sebastian Kuegler
> Aaron Seigo
> Rob Scheepmaker
> Dan Meltzer
> Laurent Montel
>
> I can't see there being an issue with any of them, but legally we need
> their written permission.
>
> If you're on this list, please can you reply saying that to agree to
> relicense any GPL code in libplasma of yours to LGPL (v2+)?
>
> Alex

For me it's ok

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Laurent Montel,
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