Re: licenses

ante <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 22 August 2002 21:08, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> On Thursday August 22, 2002 12:05, ante wrote:
> > Well, I'm no develloper, so I do not have a habit of patching. I did
> > make a new version. In it I changed the artistic to the clarified
> > artistic.
> >
> > Also, I added the line:
> > "Note there is a new version of the LGPL, version 2.1."
> >
> > To make this complete, a few more things should be done (imho).
> >
> > 1 To kdelibs/licenses both the LGPL version 2.1 (LGPL_V2.1) and the
> > Clarified Artistic license (CLARIFIED ARTISTIC) should be added.
> >
> > 2 There is an other LGPL in cvs, kdelibs/copying.lib. Unless there are
> > reasons not to do this, it can be updated to  lgpl version 2.1.
>
> We can't remove the LGPL version 2.  There is a significant amount of code
> in KDE that uses that license.  Some people reject the LGPL 2.1, and won't
> ever use it.

OK, that is clear. The copying.lib should stay version 2. Anyway, it is good 
to add version 2.1 and the clarified artistic. I hope someone takes care of 
that. (And the update of the policy.html.)

Cordialemente,

Ante

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