Hi, Until today, kde-settings' License tag was declared as "Public Domain".
This made sense when all it contained was configuration settings such as foo=false, which are clearly not a form of creative expression, but these days kde-settings is growing some code snippets, e.g.: * RPM dependency extractors * possibly a Plasma initialization script Those code snippets are probably copyrightable, and it is not legal for us European contributors to just declare them Public Domain. I have discussed this issue with the other contributors, and we agreed to put kde-settings under the MIT License, in particular this variant: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT#Modern_Style_with_sublicense which is the default license for Code contributions to Fedora, and which is effectively as permissive as Public Domain, but legally sound worldwide. As a result, the License tag in kde-settings-4.7-6.fc17 has changed to: License: MIT Please note that the kde-settings-pulseaudio subpackage is still Public Domain because it contains literally nothing to copyright and license. (It is an empty metapackage.) Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
