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Subject: BoF Input: Positive Message for SW License Presentation
From: Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cordlandwehr () kde ! org>
Date: 2020-09-08 20:32:57
Message-ID: 3320711.iIbC2pHGDl () behemoth
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Hi, in prepartion of the tomorrows BoF regarding better presentation of our
license statements I tried to write down some initial approach.
BIG DISCLAIMER: This is neither complete, nor precise enough, and possible
even incorrect/needs discussion. -- The sole purpose is to have a discussion
starting point how the general message *could* be carried when explaining a
developer with not much open source experience what a certain library license
meants to them.
For any discussions, I suggest to move them into the BoF (9 UTC) and
afterwards for sure something completely different will come out of the BoF :)
Cheers,
Andreas
DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE (focus on KF5)
----------------------
**BSD**
For you as a developer
- you can use this library and all of its features for free
- you can study the code and improve it
- this license allows you to combine it with own MIT, BSD, GPLv2, LGPLv3,
GPLv3 and even proprietary code
... and in return
- you have to give attribution to the copyright holders of the code
---------------------
**LGPL 2.1**
For you as a developer
- you can use this library and all of its features for free
- you can study the code and improve it
- you can combine it via dynamic linking with libraries and applications,
without having the license affect your own code
- any of your change so the code are safeguarded by the same license
- this license allows you to combine it with own MIT, BSD, GPLv2, LGPLv3,
GPLv3
... and in return
- you have to provide access to the source code of the library
- any enhancement of the library must be published under the same license
---------------------
**LGPL 3.0**
For you as a developer
- you can use this library and all of its features for free
- you can study the code and improve it
- you can combine it via dynamic linking with libraries and applications,
without having the license affect your own code
- any of your change are safeguarded by the same license
- this license allows you to combine it with own MIT, BSD, LGPLv3, GPLv3 and
APL-2.0
... and in return
- you have to provide access to the source code of the library
- any enhancement of the library must be published under the same license
- you have to provide explenation how to update the library
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