Plasmate: some files miss licenses

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> [If you're in the CC: of this email explicitely, please reply to it in any
> case.]
>
> The short version:
>
>        Are you OK with changing the license in the unlicensed files you
> have
>        worked on in Plasmate to GPLV2+ and KDE e.V. approved licenses?
>
>
Yes I am fine with it. Thanks for paying attention :)


> Longer version:
>
> Over the weekend, I've had a closer look at Plasmate, to fix some bugs and
> improve it here and there. It struck me that the licensing is currently
> incomplete -- some files are missing a licensing header. If we want to
> release
> Plasmate at some point, that's something we'll need to work out.
>
> I started on this by streamlining the copyright headers (some used a short
> form to refer to the GPLv2+, I've replaced those with the advised text at
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#GPL_Header
>
> There are still some files unlicensed at this point, though. I've asked
> Paul
> Adams to help me a bit to sort out the people who have written or
> contributed
> to these files, and thanks to grep, uniq, sort and svn log, I've compiled a
> list of people per file that are the copyright holders according to svn
> log.
>
> The list is:
>
> ---- *snip* ------
>
> packagemodel.h
>    aseigo
>    asouza
>    casella
>    sandroandrade
>    shantanu
>    yuenlim
> packagemodel.cpp
>    aseigo
>    asouza
>    casella
>    mart
>    sandroandrade
>    shantanu
>    yuenlim
> sidebaritem.cpp
>    aseigo
>    casella
> sidebartablewidget.cpp
>    casella
>    mlaurent
> sidebartablewidget.h
>    casella
>    mlaurent
> editors/editpage.h
>    asouza
>    mlaurent
>    shantanu
>    yuenlim
> editors/editpage.cpp
>    aseigo
>    asouza
>    mlaurent
>    sandroandrade
>    shantanu
>    yuenlim
> savesystem/tabledelegate.cpp
>    casella
> savesystem/tabledelegate.h
>    casella
> savesystem/tablewidget.cpp
>    casella
> savesystem/tablewidget.h
>    casella
> savesystem/timeline.cpp
>    aseigo
>    casella
>    coles
>    ilic
>    yuenlim
> savesystem/timeline.h
>    aseigo
>    casella
>    yuenlim
> savesystem/timelineitem.cpp
>    aseigo
>    casella
> savesystem/timelineitem.h
>    aseigo
>    casella
>
> ---- *snip* ------
>
> (I've *NOT* looked at the commits themselves, because I'm not in the
> position
> to judge if a patch is too trivial or should include the author in the
> file's
> copyright. A las, if you think your contribution to some file is trivial,
> let
> me know and I'll not include your name in the copyright header. Otherwise,
> please let me know if you're OK with changing the files you have been
> working
> on to the GPLv2 or later, including the clausule
>
> In order to protect your copyright in the future, please also consider
> signing
> the KDE e.V.'s fiduciary licensing agreement, which is a safe construct to
> keep copyright of KDE code intact and workable in case you are not
> available
> for eventual licensing changes, should that ever become necessary.
> (Different
> topic though.)
>
> Please (ideally) send me an "I am OK with the licensing changes you
> propose.",
> or in case you're not OK with it, let me know that as well and I'll see
> what
> we can do about it. I kind of expect this to be an administrative thing,
> but
> needs to happen nevertheless.
>
> Thanks for your attention on this boring topic. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> sebas
>
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>



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Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
http://www.shantanutushar.com
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