Framework licenses

Martin Graesslin mgraesslin at kde.org
Fri Dec 27 09:14:52 UTC 2013


On Monday 23 December 2013 19:45:36 Alex Merry wrote:
> On 23/12/13 18:46, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > - plasma-framework: this framework uses multiple licenses, but majority is
> > LGPL (this is the case for many other frameworks). Should we use a LGPL
> > 2.1
> > COPYING.LIB file?
> 
> A quick attack with git grep shows the majority of code to be LGPL 2
> (+), with the odd LGPL 2.1 (+) file, in the libraries, along with some
> GPL2 code (in the examples etc).  As such, I committed an LGPL 2.1
> COPYING.LIB file (since that should work for all the LGPL files) and a
> GPL2 COPYING file.
Is my assumption correct that the examples are from the former kde-examples 
repository. If yes the number of authors should be rather small. Could we try 
to relicense them?

Cheers
Martin
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