Switching to GPLv3
Andras Mantia <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:34:04 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.kommander.devel,gmane.comp.kde.devel.quanta |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, whether we like it or not, it seems that KDE will be forced to switch to the (L)GPLv3 license because of the underlying libraries are already switching to it. Currently we are tracking down the cases where GPLv2 only license is used in files. "GPLv2 or later" is fine, that is not to be changed. I'd like to ask all kdewebdev developers to think about it and write down their decisions about the switch on the following page: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing#Current_Reply_List Luckily it seems that we are in relatively good shape, altough I did not check every single file, but some script did for trunk and what I see there we need to change the license only in Quanta, and only for files that were created by Jens Herden and me. :) Another search showed that Eric's name appears in lots of problematic files (I don't know where though.) Kommander is very problematic as we cannot change the license for the Qt code, but Michal please review that the code that you own is GPLv2+ licensed. Still I'd like to have a statement from all developers involved (including those who don't have their name in the copyright section, but contributed with a non-trivial patch to the applications) on this list and tell us your choice. If you can, also add your name and choices to the wiki page. Here are your choices, please reply with yes/no if you agree or not to change the license from->to: GPLv2->GPLv2+: LGPLv2->LGPLv2+: GPLv2->GPLv2 and GPLv3: LGPLv2->LGPLv2 and LGPLv3: Let KDE e.V. decide about future license changes[*]: And for the record, here are my choices: GPLv2->GPLv2+: NO LGPLv2->LGPLv2+: NO GPLv2->GPLv2 and GPLv3: YES LGPLv2->LGPLv2 and LGPLv3: YES Let KDE e.V. decide about future license changes: YES Andras [*] The document that you will have to sign in order to let KDE e.V. handle your license is not ready yet, so this is not a final commitment from your part. The idea was discussed at this year's general assembly of the e.V, see the official minutes of the meeting: http://ev.kde.org/reports/2007.php . -- Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.kdewebdev.org K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org
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