Re: common public license

On Wednesday 21 November 2012 Nov, Mirko Boehm wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm actually not sure how this gets decided... Is there a formal way to get an okay so I can push my code?

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl