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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Clarification on licenses and use of MPLv2 in GPLv3+ software
From:       Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cordlandwehr () kde ! org>
Date:       2020-11-23 19:23:10
Message-ID: 5908640.VrlIAXfRIY () behemoth
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Hi Johnny,

I read it exactly the same way. So this looks completely fine to me.

Yet, I would suggest to have a look at REUSE compatible license statements, \
 which make it much easier to see which files are under which license. Even \
if  one should not refer to oneself for reference, here is a starting point \
how to  convert to REUSE compatible license statements [1].

Cheers,
Andreas

[1] <https://cordlandwehr.wordpress.com/2020/09/20/how-to-convert-a-project-to-reuse-compatible-license-statements/>


On Sonntag, 22. November 2020 18:10:44 CET Johnny Jazeix wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> GCompris is released under GPLv3+ license. We incorporated the code of
> a checkers engine under MPL2 licence
> (https://github.com/shubhendusaurabh/draughts.js).
> 
> I would like to be sure that it does not change the licence of
> GCompris (or if we have to ask for a possible relicensing of the
> library).
> As I read the documentation in
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#MPL-2.0, we are
> doing a "Larger Work" that combines that library with our GPLv3+ code.
> The library, under our code, will have both licences (we left the
> LICENSE file besides) and GCompris can be distributed as GPLv3+.
> 
> Can anyone confirm if my logic is good?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Johnny


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