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List:       quanta-devel
Subject:    [quanta-devel] Switching to GPLv3
From:       Andras Mantia <amantia () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-11-08 7:34:04
Message-ID: 200711080934.10100.amantia () kde ! org
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Hi,

 whether we like it or not, it seems that KDE will be forced to switch 
to the (L)GPLv3 license because of the underlying libraries are already 
switching to it. Currently we are tracking down the cases where GPLv2 
only license is used in files. "GPLv2 or later" is fine, that is not to 
be changed. 
 I'd like to ask all kdewebdev developers to think about it and write 
down their decisions about the switch on the following page:
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_Relicensing#Current_Reply_List

Luckily it seems that we are in relatively good shape, altough I did not 
check every single file, but some script did for trunk and what I see 
there we need to change the license only in Quanta, and only for files 
that were created by Jens Herden and me. :) Another search showed that 
Eric's name appears in lots of problematic files (I don't know where 
though.)

Kommander is very problematic as we cannot change the license for the Qt 
code, but Michal please review that the code that you own is GPLv2+ 
licensed.

Still I'd like to have a statement from all developers involved 
(including those who don't have their name in the copyright section, 
but contributed with a non-trivial patch to the applications) on this 
list and tell us your choice. If you can, also add your name and 
choices to the wiki page.

Here are your choices, please reply with yes/no if you agree or not to 
change the license from->to:

GPLv2->GPLv2+: 
LGPLv2->LGPLv2+:
GPLv2->GPLv2 and GPLv3:
LGPLv2->LGPLv2 and LGPLv3:
Let KDE e.V. decide about future license changes[*]:

And for the record, here are my choices:
GPLv2->GPLv2+: NO
LGPLv2->LGPLv2+: NO
GPLv2->GPLv2 and GPLv3: YES
LGPLv2->LGPLv2 and LGPLv3: YES
Let KDE e.V. decide about future license changes: YES


Andras

[*] The document that you will have to sign in order to let KDE e.V. 
handle your license is not ready yet, so this is not a final commitment 
from your part. The idea was discussed at this year's general assembly 
of the e.V, see the official minutes of the meeting: 
http://ev.kde.org/reports/2007.php .
-- 
Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.kdewebdev.org
K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org

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