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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Using ISC-licensed code in a LGPL2 file
From:       Frank Roscher <Frank-Roscher () gmx ! net>
Date:       2009-03-12 20:47:35
Message-ID: 200903122147.35487.Frank-Roscher () gmx ! net
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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 <ThJaeger@gmail.com>"
> 
> 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!
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