'kdelibs/klauncher license question'

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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    kdelibs/klauncher license question
From:       Michael Pyne <mpyne () purinchu ! net>
Date:       2009-02-19 1:44:08
Message-ID: 200902182044.13901.mpyne () purinchu ! net
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Hi all,

While looking into altering the behavior of executing .desktop files in 
response to the thread on it (and the LWN and slashdot stories) I came across 
what I believe is a mistake in licensing:

The kdelibs/kinit/proctitle.{h,cpp} files are both licenses GPLv2+ instead of 
LGPL like the rest of kdelibs.

In this case it is compiled into the executable kdeinit4 (not a library 
however).  So that's kind of a mitigating factor, but is this desired?  I 
guess really the question is does this fall into a "Source file that is part 
of a library with a public API	 which is part of KDE Platform" [1]?

klauncher itself is accessed over D-Bus and not linked to directly but it does 
provide library-like services to KDE applications (and is used as such by 
various code in kdelibs which *does* get linked in).  So is this something 
that is wrong, technically correct but undesired, or desired licensing? (The 
other files in klauncher are licensed LGPL...)?

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy para. 3

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font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Hi all,<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>While looking into \
altering the behavior of executing .desktop files in response to the thread on it \
(and the LWN and slashdot stories) I came across what I believe is a mistake in \
licensing:<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; \
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
-qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The kdelibs/kinit/proctitle.{h,cpp} files are both \
licenses GPLv2+ instead of LGPL like the rest of kdelibs.<br> <p \
style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; \
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>In \
this case it is compiled into the executable kdeinit4 (not a library however).  So \
that's kind of a mitigating factor, but is this desired?  I guess really the question \
is does this fall into a "Source file that is part of a library with a public API	 \
which is part of KDE Platform" [1]?<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>klauncher itself is \
accessed over D-Bus and not linked to directly but it does provide library-like \
services to KDE applications (and is used as such by various code in kdelibs which \
*does* get linked in).  So is this something that is wrong, technically correct but \
undesired, or desired licensing? (The other files in klauncher are licensed \
LGPL...)?<br> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; \
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
                -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards,<br>
 - Michael Pyne<br>
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margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
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