From kde-licensing Thu Mar 12 20:47:35 2009 From: Frank Roscher Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:47:35 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: Using ISC-licensed code in a LGPL2 file Message-Id: <200903122147.35487.Frank-Roscher () gmx ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=123689091521025 On Thursday 12 March 2009, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:39:33PM +0100, Frank Roscher wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > > > I've ported code from an application called EasyStroke to KHotkeys. Now, I don't want to commit this before making sure this won't cause any licensing problems in the future. > > > > The relevant file of KHotkeys is LGPL2, EasyStroke is under the ISC license: > > http://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/tree/master/LICENSE?raw=true > > The author of EasyStroke gave me explicit permission to do this (being informed about the licenses), but I don't know if that is enough for the KDE project. > > This is an X11/MIT style licence which is fine for KDE. > > http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#X11_License > > Any files which you add this code to should have a header along the > lines of > > "This file includes code from EasyStroke, Copyright (c) 2008-2009, > Thomas Jaeger " > > Then paste the rest of > http://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/blob/master/LICENSE?raw=true > > > Jonathan > That's great, thank you very much for your help! _______________________________________________ Kde-licensing mailing list Kde-licensing@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-licensing