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Subject: Re: Please make kio-extras dependency on kdsoap optional due to (temporary) license issues
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: 2020-03-24 20:47:39
Message-ID: 3054630.aeNJFYEL58 () asterixp50
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On lundi 23 mars 2020 14:12:08 CET Luca Beltrame wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (distributions@kde.org CC'd)
>
> kio-extras for 20.04 has gained a new, mandatory dependency in the form of
> the kdsoap library. However, this library has currently some licensing
> issues[1] [2] (first one already fixed) which can prevent the use by some
> distributions (these came up when reviewing the package in openSUSE).
Isn't that a little bit of an overreaction? KDSoap is available under multiple
licenses (LGPL, GPL and commerical), and we give the terms for all those
licenses in 3 different files.
Sure, the terms of the commercial license aren't acceptable to a Linux distro,
but that's the whole point of triple-licensing, you can use one of the other
licenses: LGPL or GPL.
> Given the fact that due to the worldwide disruptions caused by the current
> pandemic it might not be reasonable to have these issues fixed by the time
> 20.04 is out, I'd like to ask for this dependency to be made optional.
I don't even see what there is to fix here.
Why is it OK for Qt to be available under a triple-license scheme, but not for
KDSoap?
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David Faure, faure@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5
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