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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    GPLv2+ license for QPackageKit
From:       Vlad <vladc6 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2008-07-25 3:38:58
Message-ID: 159500.53601.qm () web54409 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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Daniel and Adrien:

Thank you for developing QPackageKit, which is urgently needed in order to integrate \
KDE and modern Linux distributions. I noticed that several files are missing license \
headers or are licensed GPLv2 only. 

In order for QPackageKit to be part of KDE (specifically the kdeadmin module), it \
needs to be compatible with the GPLv3. KDE has taken this policy so that it can link \
to GPLv3-only software such as SAMBA. See \
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing for more information.

The easiest way to make QPackageKit meet the KDE licensing guidelines is to license \
all files GPLv2+. Then you can just check the code into the KDE SVN repository ( \
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account ), and the SVN hooks will let \
you know about any license incompatibilities.

Thank you,

Vlad


      
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