Re: Res: GPLv2+ license for QPackageKit

Hi Daniel,

--- On Thu, 7/24/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, i did this on the last commit to our git but on kde-app
> i didn't had time yet.. 
> (because i will lauch a 4th beta with more improvements...
> pop ups notifications and a system tray icon...)
> i just don't have time to code these days...

Great to know, thanks! When I wrote the email I hadn't noticed that Jonathan Riddell had asked about pretty much the same thing a couple of days ago on [email protected].

I actually found out about QPackageKit from browsing the git repositories on FreeDesktop.org as opposed to kde-apps, but the naming of that git repo seems to indicate that it's outdated: 
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/hughsient/QPackageKit.old

 
> btw did you compile it on a Debian?
> i
> don't know what the hell happened but my desktop debian
> lenny compiles
> fine but i got tons of linker errors on my laptop also
> debian lenny...
> maybe this is because of my corrupted fat on the pen drive
> that i used to copy all the .debs to don't kill my
> connection... 
> bad bad i'll need to reinstall it i think...

I'm afraid I don't have Lenny installed, and I haven't tried compiling QPackageKit on my laptop, which is still running Ubuntu 7.04 :)

Vlad


> 
> Daniel.
> 
> 
> ----- Mensagem original ----
> De: Vlad <[email protected]>
> Para: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 25 de Julho de 2008 0:38:58
> Assunto: GPLv2+ license for QPackageKit
> 
> Daniel and Adrien:
> 
> Thank you for developing QPackageKit, which is urgently
> needed in order to integrate KDE and modern Linux
> distributions. I noticed that several files are missing
> license headers or are licensed GPLv2 only. 
> 
> In order for QPackageKit to be part of KDE (specifically
> the kdeadmin module), it needs to be compatible with the
> GPLv3. KDE has taken this policy so that it can link to
> GPLv3-only software such as SAMBA. See
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing for more
> information.
> 
> The easiest way to make QPackageKit meet the KDE licensing
> guidelines is to license all files GPLv2+. Then you can
> just check the code into the KDE SVN repository (
> http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account ), and
> the SVN hooks will let you know about any license
> incompatibilities.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Vlad
> 
> 
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