Re: Relicensing KioFuse from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2+

Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:59, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le dimanche 30 septembre 2007, Vlad a écrit :
> > I'm working to port KioFuse to KDE4 with the hope that it will be
> > incorporated into kdelibs. According to the KDE licensing policy
> > (http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy), code residing in
> > kdelibs must be licensed as LGPL or a more permissive license. You
> > (Alexander Neundorf and Kévin 'ervin' Ottens) hold copyright on the
> > following files in KioFuse:
> > [...]
> > Thank you very much for your consideration,
>
> Well, I'm not against a relicensing from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2+ per say. That

Same here, feel free to relicense it to LGPL.

> said, wanting to have KioFuse in kdelibs looks clearly misguided from a
> technical perspective... It's definitely not a library, and it really has
> nothing to do in kdelibs (apps don't have to use KioFuse, and shouldn't use
> it).

I thought the same first, but then e.g. the file ioslave is also in kdelibs...

Bye
Alex
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