Re: Update to KDE Licence Policy
Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:19:22PM +0100, Alex Merry wrote: > I made a couple of edits with respect to commas in the version lists, > just to make it clearer. Thanks. > I think we should also allow people to just put "version 2 or (at your > option) any later version" (and mention this), since there will > undoubtably be people who trust the FSF enough to license their work > this way. > > It should also be noted (just in general, not necessarily in the > licensing policy) that this means we cannot import code that is > licensed only under GPLv2 (or code that is licensed under GPLv3 or > licensed as GPLv2 or GPLv3), since we are requiring copyright holders > to either allow any later version or declare KDE e.v. as a proxy. I've updated the draft to say that simple version 2+ is fine too. Jonathan