Re: Update to KDE Licence Policy

Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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