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Subject: Re: Review request: moving libkgoogle to extragear
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: 2012-05-27 10:53:40
Message-ID: 1402346.TjtEFkvlxH () xps
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El Dissabte, 26 de maig de 2012, a les 17:23:13, Dan Vratil va escriure:
> On Saturday 26 of May 2012 11:42:41 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > Dan Vratil <dan@progdan.cz> writes:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > LibKGoogle is a new optional dependency of kdepim-runtime. It's used by
> > > the
> > > new Akonadi Google resources.
> > >
> > > It's now in kdereview [0] and I'd like to move it to extragear, so I'm
> > > asking for a review on the library.
> >
> > One thing I have noticed is that libkgoogle seems to be GPLv3+, while
> > KDE's licensing policy [1] says code under the GPL should be GPLv2+.
>
> As far as I understand the policies, libkgoogle is a subject to point 5,
> which says
>
> Any other source files must be licensed under one of the terms listed under
> 4) or one of the following terms
> * GPL version 2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING or later
> * GPL version 2 or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership
> of KDE e.V.
> * ...
>
> I understand the second item as "either GPLv2 or GPLv3 or any later approved
> version", so GPLv3+ should be OK too, right?
No, you missed the part that says "Note each bulletpoint above is a single
option, it can not be licenced under just part of one bulletpoint option"
Albert
>
> But if GPLv3+ should really be a problem, I'm OK with downgrading the
> license (I guess I'll have to ask others who contributed).
>
> > The ${qjson_LIBRARIES} hack should not be needed anymore anyway, as the
> > naming scheme was restored months ago in git master (no version was
> > released with the names messed up).
>
> Thanks, I'll remove it.
>
> > [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
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