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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Move Licentia to KDEREVIEW
From:       Ben Cooksley <bcooksley () kde ! org>
Date:       2022-07-11 10:37:09
Message-ID: CA+XidOE-1dyDwG6NGW=9dfc40XykrCVLj0cxXMOB_2KkRC6adg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:10 PM David Redondo <kde@david-redondo.de> wrote:

> Am Freitag, 8. Juli 2022, 07:36:57 CEST schrieb Felipe Kinoshita:
> > Hey, I'd like to move Licentia <https://invent.kde.org/sdk/licentia> to
> > KDEREVIEW.
> >
> > Licentia is a simple app targeted at developers/creators who need to
> decide
> > which license is suited to their projects, Licentia helps with that by
> > listing a bunch of licenses, which with it's permissions, conditions and
> > limitations, instructions about how to add a license to your project and
> a
> > list of known projects that use said license.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Felipe.
>
> I am not entirely happy about the Instruction to use a license being 'put
> a
> LICENSE file in the root directory' when it's a pattern we are going away
> from
> and towards reuse compliance.
> Maybe display the SPDX tag instead?
>

Please note that Gitlab and other places still do rely on LICENSE (or
COPYING) files being present (and I guarantee there is distribution tooling
out there that does the same too) so I wouldn't be too quick to shoot down
LICENSE files in the root of repositories.


>
> David
>
>
>
Cheers,
Ben

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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:10 PM David Redondo &lt;<a \
href="mailto:kde@david-redondo.de">kde@david-redondo.de</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><div \
class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Am Freitag, 8. Juli \
2022, 07:36:57 CEST schrieb Felipe Kinoshita:<br> &gt; Hey, I&#39;d like to move \
Licentia &lt;<a href="https://invent.kde.org/sdk/licentia" rel="noreferrer" \
target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/sdk/licentia</a>&gt; to<br> &gt; \
KDEREVIEW.<br> &gt; <br>
&gt; Licentia is a simple app targeted at developers/creators who need to decide<br>
&gt; which license is suited to their projects, Licentia helps with that by<br>
&gt; listing a bunch of licenses, which with it&#39;s permissions, conditions and<br>
&gt; limitations, instructions about how to add a license to your project and a<br>
&gt; list of known projects that use said license.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Thanks,<br>
&gt; Felipe.<br>
<br>
I am not entirely happy about the Instruction to use a license being &#39;put a <br>
LICENSE file in the root directory&#39; when it&#39;s a pattern we are going away \
from <br> and towards reuse compliance. <br>
Maybe display the SPDX tag instead?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please note \
that Gitlab and other places still do rely on LICENSE (or COPYING) files being \
present (and I guarantee there is distribution tooling out there that does the same \
too) so I wouldn&#39;t be too quick to shoot down LICENSE files in the root of \
repositories.</div><div>  </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px \
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br>
David<br>
<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ben</div><div>  \
</div></div></div>



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