Re: Licensing for cxx-kde-frameworks (Rust bridge for KF6)

On 31/10/24 5:47 am, Sune Vuorela wrote:

> On 2024-10-30, Darshan Phaldesai <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Few considerations:
>> First, I plan to include bridges for most libraries needed for
>> application development and so need to consider their licenses as well.
>> Second, This project will only hold the "bridge" code and thus users
>> will still need to install the libraries. I don't think this should
>> cause any license violations but the bridge code is based of the method
>> signatures of the original libraries.
>> Third, Upstream `cxx-qt` project uses Apache-2.0+MIT and I planned to do
>> the same but KDE's Licensing policy doesn't mention any thing about
>> Apache-2.0.
> I'd say just stick the same license on it as the KDE Frameworks in
> question.
> Given they are a directly derived work and also uses the KDE Frameworks
> underneath, giving any other license is just going to be confusing for
> the people involved.
>
> The app developers needs to deal with (l)gpl licenses anyway.
>
> /Sune
Now that I think about it, this might the best way to maintain license 
compatibility. Individual bridges can be licensed depending on their 
counterparts.

I will make this change. Thank you.

Darshan Phaldesai