Re: Updated Licence Draft

Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 23 November 2007 01:10:51 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:40:41AM +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>
> > Are we sure that we don't need a "(L)GPL v2 or v3" option without the KDE
> > e.V. approved license choice? I guess there are people who aren't willing
> > to license their code under a license they can't know yet.
>
> One of the major features of thus update is to make it future proof so
> we don't end up with the same problems as we currently have again.

Yes, but aren't there a number of contributors who still don't want to have 
the blanket "or later" statement, although they agree to license under GPL 3? 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing seems to indicate that.

> > Is there no problem with licensing icons under LGPL 3 and later only
> > without a LGPL v2 option? Isn't there a conflict when linking LGPL 3
> > icons with GPL 2 only code?
>
> I don't know of anywhere that we link icons to code. .ui files no
> longer contain embedded images.

What about Qt resource files?

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Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>
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