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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE's license policy (Re: KasBar Licensing)
From:       Frans Englich <frans.englich () telia ! com>
Date:       2004-01-06 14:29:42
Message-ID: 200401061529.42409.frans.englich () telia ! com
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On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:31, Thomas Zander wrote:

> This change makes it illegal to have QtDesigner files in CVS.

I don't know if the change makes it more illegal than it was before but it 
sure is a problem(and apparently has been considered before). It is currently 
in discussion on kde-devel, in the thread "Re: kdeutils licenses missing".

Cheers,

			Frans

>
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:16, Frans Englich wrote:
> > KDE's license policy is going to change.
> >
> > Something like "the KOffice team" would be not allowed anymore!
> >
> > Have a nice day!
> >
> > On Sunday 04 January 2004 15:43, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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> > > On Sun January 04 2004 14:47, Frans Englich wrote:
> > > > According to http://developer.kde.org/policies/licensepolicy.html
> > > > source files /must/ contain a copyright and license header, but it
> > > > says nothing about header files. It is the source files which are the
> > > > most important so perhaps that is ok(should the text be modfied to
> > > > explicit mention how to treat headers?).
> > >
> > > Header files are source files too.
> > >
> > > > In the kicker case the copyright says "(C) The kicker authors, see
> > > > file kicker/AUTHORS"(or something similar) so it should be possible
> > > > to claim copyright without sounding fuzzy and ambiguous(AFAICT). It
> > > > would IMHO be good if licensepolicy.html mentioned whether it is ok
> > > > to have copyright statements referencing files(as the kicker case).
> > >
> > > I don't think that's a good idea because code gets copied around but
> > > the referenced file not necessarily as well.
> >
> > Attached patch clarifies this in licensepolicy.html for similar
> > situations. In other words, someone can put on their TODO to look over
> > /all/ source files if they contain a valid license and copyright header
> > ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > 			Frans
>
> - --
> Thomas Zander
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