kdepimlibs Licensing

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres 07 Novembre 2008, Tom Albers va escriure:
> 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...

Why? Those libraries that would get the gpl suffix are not public at the 
moment, so there's no bc to maintain, right?

Albert

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