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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] kdepim/ktnef License
From:       Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-06-30 14:18:30
Message-ID: 200606301018.30763.winter () kde ! org
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On Friday 30 June 2006 05:46, Volker Krause wrote:
> On Friday 30 June 2006 01:17, Allen Winter wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > As you may be aware, we are attempting to move all the libraries we can
> > from out of the kdepim module and into a new kdepimlibs module.
> >
> > I am currently attempting to move libkcal into kdepimlibs.
> > However, because libkcal depends on your ktnef code, I will
> > need to move ktnef into kdepimlibs as well.
> >
> > Here's the problem:  all the code in kdepimlibs must be licensed as
> > LGPL, BSD, or X11.  And ktnef is licensed as GPL.
> >
> > The question:  would you be willing to re-license ktnef from GPL to LGPL?
> > This would need to be done in SVN kdepim trunk only.  Then I would do the
> > move into kdepimlibs.
> 
> There is an (IMHO better) alternative to moving ktnef: removing the tnef 
> dependency of libkcal.
> 
> There are only two functions in libkcal/incidenceformatter.h which actually 
> depend on it. From looking at the code it seems possible to eg. invert the 
> dependency by moving these functions to ktnef. Given that libkcal is used all 
> over kdepim but the ktnef only by KMail, this makes sense IMHO.
> 
FYI:  Michael wrote back to me and has agreed to change the license to LGPL.
So we should do both:  
 1. change the license so ktnef can move into kdepimlibs
 2. invert the kcal <-> ktnef dependency


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