Re: Multiple licences and KAboutData
"Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:41:26 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.licensing |
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| Organization | K Desktop Environment |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Alex, Am Freitag, 29. Februar 2008, um 10:43 Uhr, schrieb Alex Merry: > On Thursday 28 February 2008 15:43:06 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > > However, I think multiple licensing is a good thing to allow. So we > > > can say " this is licensed under both GPLv2 and GPLv3, and you can > > > choose either". > > > > Any idea how this could be presented to the user? The patch I sent to > > kde-core-devel just lists all licenses without any additional explanation > > (see http://frinring.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/aboutokteta.png). No > > "or" mentioned. Is that needed at all? > > Dual-licensing typically (ie: pretty much always) means you can use any of > the licenses you like, as long as you satisfy the conditions. I think > anyone who is really interested in the license will realise this. > > So I don't think any further explanation is necessary. Alright. Patch is committed now, so everyone can furtherone state multiple licenses also in the gui. Thanks Friedrich