Re: Update to KDE Licence Policy

Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 06 August 2007 12:32, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 03:38:15PM +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>>> On Sunday 05 August 2007 12:40, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>>>> The other problem is much of our code is GPL 2 only (also LGPL 2
>>>> only, but that doesn't matter as it can upgrade to GPL 2 or
>>>> above).
>>> Do we have an overview of which exact parts of our code are GPL 2
>>> only?
>> http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/KDE-GPLv2-only
>>
>> and these people to persuade
>>
>> http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/KDE-GPLv2-only-copyright-holders
> 
> Just looking at the copyright headers is not sufficient. All people who 
> made a copyrightable contribution to a source file are copyright 
> holders (of portions of the source code). So you will also have to 
> check the svn log of all GPL 2 only licensed files.

At what point has someone de-facto given away their copyright? For 
example, I've made some minor contributions to things here and there, 
that I don't want to have to be involved in every little 'can we upgrade 
the license' issue.

Another problem arises when one person does not create an original work, 
i.e. an svn commit consists of someone taking someone else's code from 
one place and adding it elsewhere. The svn log does not correctly 
reflect who owns the copyright on such a change. (I just did that last 
week...)

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Matthew
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