Review Request: Launcher support for libtaskmanager

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Tue Jul 13 23:33:53 CEST 2010


On Tuesday 13 July 2010, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> > On 2010-07-10 19:13:13, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > > GPL for library files? Sounds strange to me. I'd expect at least
> > > LGPL...
> > 
> > Marco Martin wrote:
> >     this library is a big mess it already contains pieces in gpl, lgpl
> >     and bsd this really should be fixed
> > 
> > Markus Slopianka wrote:
> >     Combining LGPL and more permissive licenses (BSD, MIT) isn't such a
> >     big deal, but I'd avoid GPL for libraries. While it's not a
> >     violation of KDE's Licensing Policies (that one only demands LGPL or
> >     more permissive for kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase-runtime), it's
> >     at least inconsistent with KDE's general "LGPL for libraries and GPL
> >     for applications" approach. I suggest to Anton to use LGPL for both
> >     to at least make the situation not more messy than it already is.
> 
> er... this entire library is BSD licensed. Marco: what parts are lgpl or
> gpl?
> 
> and yes, GPL is not acceptable. out of respect for the original authors, we
> should keep it BSD licensed, including new additions.

uhm, lgpl apparently not
taskgroup.h and taskitem.h are gpl
while corresponding cpp files are bsd
oh joy
but this means is just a wrong copy and paste, i assume the intended license 
was the one of the cpp files, so bsd as the rest...

> - Aaron
> 
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> On 2010-07-10 18:21:39, Anton Kreuzkamp wrote:
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> > (Updated 2010-07-10 18:21:39)
> > 
> > 
> > Review request for Plasma.
> > 
> > 
> > Summary
> > -------
> > 
> > Adds support for Windows 7 like launchers in libtaskmanager.
> > (I'm on holliday from 12th July until 1st August so I will not be able to
> > reply during this time.)
> > 
> > 
> > Diffs
> > -----
> > 
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskitem.h 1148442
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskgroup.cpp 1148442
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskgroup.h 1148442
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/strategies/programgroupin
> >   gstrategy.cpp 1148442
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/launcheritem.cpp
> >   PRE-CREATION
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/launcheritem.h
> >   PRE-CREATION
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/groupmanager.cpp 1148442
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/groupmanager.h 1148442
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/abstractgroupableitem.h
> >   1148442
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/abstractsortingstrategy.
> >   cpp 1148442
> >   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/CMakeLists.txt 1148442
> > 
> > Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4585/diff
> > 
> > 
> > Testing
> > -------
> > 
> > Tested with a small test-applett and everything works.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Anton


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Marco Martin


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