kdepimlibs Licensing

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 07 November 2008 10:46:49 am Allen Winter wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2008 6:26:35 am Tom Albers wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 07 november 2008 00:50 schreef u:
> > > A Divendres 07 Novembre 2008, Allen Winter va escriure:
> > > > Howdy,
> > > >
> > > > Would it be possible to relax the licensing requirements in kdepimlibs to
> > > > permit GPL code? Currently, kdepimlibs requirements are the same as
> > > > kdelibs; i.e. only LGPL, BSD, X11.
> > > >
> > > > There are at least 4 GPL libraries in kdepim (libkholidays, libksieve,
> > > > kdgantt, libkleo) that would be very useful for kdebase, KOffice and
> > > > extragear.
> > > >
> > > > For example:
> > > > libkholidays could provide holiday info for calendar plasmoids
> > > > libksieve could allow Mailody to implement IMAP sieve filters
> > > > kgantt would allow KOffice Gantt charts without having to use the current
> > > > svn external etc.
> > > >
> > > > Attempts at relicensing these libraries has failed or is very difficult.
> > > > We have tried.
> > > >
> > > > I've been told that there was agreement at the last Akademy to allow
> > > > kdepimlibs to have GPL code?? If wasn't there so this is 3rd hand info.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like an official answer.  Or another suggestion.
> > > >
> > > > Comments?
> > > 
> > > I'm not at all involved in kdepimlibs besides roaming const & fixes :D But 
> > > this is my advice, if you are going to accept GPL libraries in kdepimlibs 
> > > adding a _gpl suffix to them seems a good idea so people linking know they 
> > > are linking to a GPL library.
> > > 
> > > Albert
> > 
> > dfaure pointed out that that would break bc...
> > 
> Yep.
> So the next best idea we have so far is:
> - put the source into kdepimlibs/gpl.
> - make sure the doxygen main pages say GPL on them
> - clearly state in the kdepimlibs/README and kdepimlibs/POLICIES file
>    that there is GPL code in here
> - ??
> 
Another possibility is to create a new module called kdepimlibs-gpl
Reading back through the archives, I know that Ingo was a strong advocate of this solution.

-Allen