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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0
From:       Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano () tiscali ! it>
Date:       2021-09-22 12:13:14
Message-ID: ef1011be-4ed2-cd53-60c1-473f99e796b5 () tiscali ! it
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Jonathan Riddell ha scritto:
> I think I'd be against adding it to the policy, the aim of the policy has
> always been to keep it simple which licence to use so ensure code and be
> swapped around within and outwith KDE with minimal worry about different
> licences.  Apache 2 doesn't add any useful use case to our licences that isn't
> already covered by another one, it's just a bit more explicit about the
> intended uses.
> 
> There's no problem with linking to Apache 2 code such as openssl.  When Apache
> 2 licenced code is included in KDE because of policies used by other projects
> that share the code such as aether-ssas or mycroft that shouldn't be a
> problem, we can just note the reason why it's used and make clear the
> different licence.

Please consider that such a broad "no, you need to justify it every time"
basically blocks the usage of this license even for tooling. As pointed out,
for example, Apache 2 is widely used in the Python world.

Can we please at least have an exception for infrastructural tooling?


-- 
Luigi
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