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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?
From:       Kevin Krammer <krammer () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-12-10 9:19:21
Message-ID: 201212101019.26852.krammer () kde ! org
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On Monday, 2012-12-10, Yogesh Marwaha wrote:
> On 10 December 2012 00:56, Kevin Krammer <krammer@kde.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >> On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Yogesh Marwaha wrote:
> >> > That's where i'm confused. Even for one function of 5-6 lines, I
> >> > assume I'll have to include license part also. Then where do I
> >> > include it begining of file or begining of function?
> >> 
> >> Your choice.
> >> What was the licence of the file you got the function from?
> >> If it is something that includes yours (GPLv3), e.g. GPL v2+v3, or, GPL
> >> v2 or later, just add the Copyright attribution line to yours.
> > 
> > Not sure why I didn't think about that earlier:
> > have you tried contacting the developers in question and ask them?
> 
> No, because the KDE3 part of code was not in use anymore and the

Not sure I see the correlation between the code having been part of code that 
was released a couple of years ago and contacting the code's authors.

> other function... only 4-5 lines (even though it contained solution for the
> problem, without me having to research deeper into it), I was really
> hesitant to ask for clarification reg. license from the developer itself
> :-) But since all the included code is GPLv2, I will include the copyright
> attribution only.

Make sure it is GPL v2 (or at your option any later version). Plain GPLv2 is 
incompatibly with plain GPL v3

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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