From kde-community  Wed Mar 31 18:49:35 2021
From: Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cordlandwehr () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:49:35 +0000
To: kde-community
Subject: Re: Releasing a non-KF5 library under MIT License
Message-Id: <3260446.e4lfQmC6ZP () behemoth>
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On Mittwoch, 31. M=E4rz 2021 01:52:02 CEST Alexander Potashev wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:54 AM Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano@tiscali.it>=
=20
[...]
> > 4. Source files that are part of a library with a public API which is p=
art
> > of the KDE Platform (kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kde-runtime and KDE Framework=
s)
> > must be licensed under:
> > [... licenses, including: ...]
> >=20
> >  * MIT: MIT license as listed below.
> >=20
> > [...]
> >=20
> > 5. Any other source files must be licensed under one of the terms listed
> > under 4) or:
> > [ other licenses]
>=20
> Makes sense. Thanks for pointing this out!
>=20
> (IOW the licensing policy "KDE Platform" is even tighter and for the
> other projects, and this is great for me!)

Hi, the idea behind this policy is to ensure that code can (somehow) easily=
 be=20
moved between KDE projects. Most permissive licenses are completely fine to=
=20
achieve this goal as long as they are compatible with the (L)GPL versions t=
hat=20
the majority of the code is licensed under. -- This is the case for MIT.

Luckily, as Luigi pointed out, our policy already says that MIT is OK to be=
=20
used :)

Cheers,
Andreas