Hello, 

I was just checking some licenses on some ports, and I realised the one of 
kdelibs4 is wrong at the present time. However, I am a bit confused about 
determining the proper license. For now, it is set to GPL-2+, which is the most 
restrictive of what is contained in the codes, but it should be "GPL-2+ LGPL-2+ 
BSD Permissive" to account for all licenses contained in the code. 

However, the GPL codes seem to be essentially testing codes, and may not be 
part of the used executables. Furthermore, kdelibs is commonly considered 
licensed under LGPL, as it is the one announced by KDE, and Fedora distributes 
packages for example. 

I am not fully sure of the criterion in a case like this in order to choose the 
license. Therefore, I am wondering if I should list everything (GPL-2+ LGPL-2+ 
BSD Permissive), or if I should limit to what is commonly considered (LGPL-2+ 
BSD Permissive), which would make the port distributable ?

Cheers, 

Nicolas
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