El Diumenge, 11 de maig de 2014, a les 01:58:17, Matthias Klumpp va escriure: > 2014-05-11 1:24 GMT+02:00 Alvaro Soliverez <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > For KMyMoney, just go ahead and commit the file. We'll see the > > notification and adjust if needed. > > > > We use GPLv2+ for all our files. > > Great, I'll do that in a second. > Just a sidenote on why using the GPL etc. is not a good idea for > metadata here: The AppStream design leads to all descriptions from all > packages being bundled in one single, huge XML file on the > distribution side.
Sounds like a bad design decision in the AppStream side to me. Cheers, Albert > If some stuff is GPL'ed, the whole file becomes > licensed under the GPL. If now something else is licensed under a > GPL-incompatible license and also needs to be in that file, > distributors can't generate it without violating a license. Using > non-permissive licenses also limits the use of this metadata slightly, > which is not desired. > As much as I love the GPL and any copylefted license (I think it's > fundamentally right to use it for any software), using it for metadata > is a bad idea. So, please use a permissive license for the > <metadata_license/> tag, like CC0-1.0, MIT etc. (some of these > licenses are listed in the AppStream spec). > Distributions will read that tag and drop metadata which they can't > combine with other works based on the value set there.
