From kde-community Sun Jun 23 12:12:53 2013 From: Andreas Cord-Landwehr Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:12:53 +0000 To: kde-community Subject: Re: [kde-community] Tupi: Open 2D Magic Message-Id: <4837705.hlBoXtyvJe () sooner> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=137198957919459 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0924464584124946495==" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============0924464584124946495== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="nextPart2035421.0jLOfZAEnn" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --nextPart2035421.0jLOfZAEnn Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Sunday 23 June 2013 14:03:46 Adri=E1n Chaves Fern=E1ndez=20 wrote: > By the way, is there any known explanation why a KDE project=20 cannot use only > a GPL license higher than 3? Why is GPLv2 mandatory? AFAIK this shall allow contributors to work at the KDE codebase=20 without much thinking about license problems. For example,=20 mixing (or even linking) GPL v2-only with GPL v3-only code=20 guides to an application that you cannot legally distribute. Hence, having all code compatible with GPL v2 provides a=20 common compatibility level for all our=20 sources/applications/libraries. Greetings, Andreas --nextPart2035421.0jLOfZAEnn Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"

On = Sunday 23 June 2013 14:03:46 Adri=E1n Chaves Fern=E1ndez wrote:

>= ; By the way, is there any known explanation why a KDE project cannot u= se only

>= ; a GPL license higher than 3? Why is GPLv2 mandatory?

AFA= IK this shall allow contributors to work at the KDE codebase without mu= ch thinking about license problems. For example, mixing (or even linkin= g) GPL v2-only with GPL v3-only code guides to an application that you = cannot legally distribute.

Hen= ce, having all code compatible with GPL v2 provides a common compatibil= ity level for all our sources/applications/libraries.

Gre= etings,

And= reas

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