On Friday 07 November 2008 10:46:49 am Allen Winter wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008 6:26:35 am Tom Albers wrote: > > Op vrijdag 07 november 2008 00:50 schreef u: > > > A Divendres 07 Novembre 2008, Allen Winter va escriure: > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > > > Would it be possible to relax the licensing requirements in kdepimlibs > > > > to > > > > permit GPL code? Currently, kdepimlibs requirements are the same as > > > > kdelibs; i.e. only LGPL, BSD, X11. > > > > > > > > There are at least 4 GPL libraries in kdepim (libkholidays, libksieve, > > > > kdgantt, libkleo) that would be very useful for kdebase, KOffice and > > > > extragear. > > > > > > > > For example: > > > > libkholidays could provide holiday info for calendar plasmoids > > > > libksieve could allow Mailody to implement IMAP sieve filters > > > > kgantt would allow KOffice Gantt charts without having to use the > > > > current > > > > svn external etc. > > > > > > > > Attempts at relicensing these libraries has failed or is very difficult. > > > > We have tried. > > > > > > > > I've been told that there was agreement at the last Akademy to allow > > > > kdepimlibs to have GPL code?? If wasn't there so this is 3rd hand info. > > > > > > > > I'd like an official answer. Or another suggestion. > > > > > > > > Comments? > > > > > > I'm not at all involved in kdepimlibs besides roaming const & fixes :D > > > But > > > this is my advice, if you are going to accept GPL libraries in kdepimlibs > > > adding a _gpl suffix to them seems a good idea so people linking know > > > they > > > are linking to a GPL library. > > > > > > Albert > > > > dfaure pointed out that that would break bc... > > > Yep. > So the next best idea we have so far is: > - put the source into kdepimlibs/gpl. > - make sure the doxygen main pages say GPL on them > - clearly state in the kdepimlibs/README and kdepimlibs/POLICIES file > that there is GPL code in here > - ?? > Another possibility is to create a new module called kdepimlibs-gpl Reading back through the archives, I know that Ingo was a strong advocate of this solution.
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