Re: common public license

Mirko Boehm <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:05:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Organization KDE e.V.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On 11/21/2012 10:35 AM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For Krita and Calligra we created wix-based installers so we could give
> people an msi instead of a setup.exe. Wix is open source, and release by
> Microsoft under the Commone Public License 1.0
> (http://opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php). I couldn't find this
> license in the list at http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy.
> 
> On the other hand, I really want to share our installer code, and I
> would prefer to be able to push it to a KDE hosted repository instead of
> github or gitorious.
> 
> Would it be possible to extend the list of allowed licenses with this
> license for installers only?
> 
> Boudewijn
+1.

If this is a generic problem, how about extending the list of accepted
license for specific cases? Like

* To create installers for Windows, CPL1.0 is accepted.

Cheers,

Mirko.
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