GPLv2-only in SVN (Re: Updated Licence Draft)

On Wednesday 21 of November 2007, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> We're updating the licence policy for KDE to obsolete old licences,
> ensure GPL 3 compatibility and fill in some gaps.
>
> Please take a look at it and comment on the kde-licencing list.
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy/Draft

 "All source code in KDE SVN must meet the following requirements:
...
5.Any other source files must be licensed under one of the terms listed under 
3) or any of the following terms: 
GPL version 2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING or later (GPLv2+) 
GPL version 2, version 3 or later versions approved by KDE e.V. (GPLv2+3+e.V)"

 When is this going to be required and what does that mean for code that does 
not comply with this and is in SVN?

 Currently kdebase/workspace/ksplash/ksplashx does not comply, as it uses 
large chunks of Qt3 code. And I currently cannot do anything reasonable about 
it. Getting it to comply would mean getting some kind of Qt that would allow 
such licensing and rewritting it using this code. Other options include 
writting all that code manually, having a black&white rectangle as the KDE4 
splash or bringing ksplashml back from its grave. Given that ksplashx works 
and has only X11 and PNG as its dependencies, that's quite a lot of work for 
only the "happy FSF" sticker (and you can forget any of that for 4.0 except 
for removal).

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Lubos Lunak
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