Fix for nonfree software in repo

[Christoph Cullmann]

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:53:18AM +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:46:53AM +0100, Philipp A. wrote:
> > >      Hi, i'm currently fixing the issue about two nonfree-licensed files
> > >      in
> > >      the KWrite repo:
> > 
> > >    eh, sorry, pressed ctrl-return accidentally.
> > > 
> > >    and i just saw that therea**s no issue anyway, as js_utils doesna**t
> > >    contain nonfree stuff in 4.12:
> > > 
> > >    https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/applications/kate/repository/show/addons/kate/pate/src/plugins/js_utils?rev=KDE%2F4.12
> > 
> > No but Kate does have many violations of KDE's licence policy and with
> > its own licencing.  Much of Kate is LGPL v2 only and this Pate stuff
> > is LGPL v3 or later.  addons/kate/close-except-like is also GPL 3 or
> > later.  GPL 2 is incompatible with LGPL 3 so Kate is probably not
> > compatible with its own licence.
> > 
> > Our policy says everything should be GPL 2 or 3 or later to ensure
> > minimal problems with licence compatibility when sharing code around
> > in KDE and to prevent issues like this.
> 
> I take some of this back, it's LGPL 2 only which can be converted to
> GPL 3 so it is compatible with LGPL 3.  So Kate is compatible with its
> own licencing but not with KDE's licence policy.
Hi,

we tried to relicense the code years ago already (I hope not too much new stuff slipped in),
but it is close to impossible to reach all authors and get a response, especially for the very old stuff...

Greetings
Christoph

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