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’abril de 2017, a les 18:34:35 CEST, Thomas Eschenbacher va 
escriure:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> -> So what kind of license should I use instead, any suggestions?
> 
> 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 date?
> 
> regards,
>    Thomas