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 00:48, Vlad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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:
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/jobhelpers.h
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/basejobhelper.cpp
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/kiofuseapp.cpp
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/basejobhelper.h
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/kiofuseapp.h
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/main.cpp
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/kiofuseops.cpp
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/kiofuseops.h
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/jobhelpers.cpp
>
> Would you agree to a change of license on these files from:
>
> "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>
> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>
> (at your option) any later version."
>
> to
>
> "This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."?

Yes, I agree.

Alex
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