Re: license for small audio sample
Thomas Eschenbacher <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 07:23:37 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.multimedia,gmane.comp.kde.licensing |
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Albert Astals Cid wrote: > [...] >> 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. >> >> 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 > conflict with GPL code, tell him to not waste your time. Thanks, that confirms my opinion! Then only one question remains: which existing KDE application *also* uses that license? It is suggested on https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy, so I would expect that there are many examples... Or am I the only one on the world who follows that rule? regards, Thomas