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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] kdepim/ktnef License
From:       Bo Thorsen <bo () sonofthor ! dk>
Date:       2006-07-06 7:48:12
Message-ID: 200607060948.12560.bo () sonofthor ! dk
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Tuesday 04 July 2006 16:32 skrev Allen Winter:
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 03:26, you wrote:
> > Saturday 01 July 2006 01:38 skrev Allen Winter:
> > > Bo,
> > >
> > > You own the copyright on ktnef/ktnefwriter.cpp.  Can I change the
> > > license on ktnefwriter.cpp from GPL to LGPL??
> >
> > Sure, that's not a problem at all. You and anyone else in KDE hereby have
> > my permission to change any file I'm copyright holder on from GPL to
> > LGPL.
> >
> > I prefer LGPL :-)
>
> Great News. Thanks Bo.
>
> > Just out of curiosity, what is the reason for it? Is it the move to the
> > kdepim libs thing that needs this?
>
> Yes.  All the code in kdepimlibs needs to be licensed as if it lived in
> kdelibs. i.e. LGPL, BSD, or X11.
>
> > Have you discussed with the others whether this tnef code should remain
> > in there at all? It's not used a lot. But it is actually capable of
> > receiving and decoding a tnef based invitation mail from Outlook, so it
> > might be worthwhile to have it in there.
>
> Well, we are in the process of doing a lot of re-arranging of stuff for
> KDE4. Right now libkcal is dependent on ktnef.  And we want to put libkcal
> in kdepimlibs. Things could always change however :>
>
> Thanks again Bo.

You're very welcome.

> Maybe we'll see you back in KDE development someday 
> soon??

That would be nice, but for now I still need to focus on my company. However, 
there are a bunch of things I'd like to do in KMail ... :-)

Bo.

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