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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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