libplasma GPL files

Dan Meltzer parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 17:43:47 CEST 2008


2008/9/7 Alex Merry <kde at randomguy3.me.uk>:
> 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

Sure thing (not sure how my copyright appeared in there but :)


> 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
>
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