Re: license for small audio sample

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:48:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing,gmane.comp.kde.users.multimedia
Message-ID <1916763.ZTb4Qkxe9M@xps>
El dimecres, 26 d=E2=80=99abril de 2017, a les 18:34:35 CEST, Thomas Eschen=
bacher va=20
escriure:
> Hi all,
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> in my application (Kwave) I have some small audio sample file, which
> currently is licensed under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license, as suggested by
> https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy section 11.
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> Now some packager from Gentoo Linux told me that this is not a nice idea
> because it is "incompatible with GPL" and that my application (Kwave)
> seems to be the only one that uses this license among all other KDE
> applications.

The Gentoo packager has no clue of what he is saying. A "data" file can't=20
conflict with GPL code, tell him to not waste your time.

Cheers,
  Albert

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> -> So what kind of license should I use instead, any suggestions?
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> Unfortunately I did not find a clear answer to my question on the
> "licensing policy" page on community.kde.org, is that page still up to da=
te?
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> regards,
>    Thomas