On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:53:18AM +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:46:53AM +0100, Philipp A. wrote: > > Hi, i'm currently fixing the issue about two nonfree-licensed files in > > the KWrite repo: > > > eh, sorry, pressed ctrl-return accidentally. > > > > and i just saw that therea**s no issue anyway, as js_utils doesna**t > > contain nonfree stuff in 4.12: > > > > > > https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/applications/kate/repository/show/addons/kate/pate/src/plugins/js_utils?rev=KDE%2F4.12 > > No but Kate does have many violations of KDE's licence policy and with > its own licencing. Much of Kate is LGPL v2 only and this Pate stuff > is LGPL v3 or later. addons/kate/close-except-like is also GPL 3 or > later. GPL 2 is incompatible with LGPL 3 so Kate is probably not > compatible with its own licence. > > Our policy says everything should be GPL 2 or 3 or later to ensure > minimal problems with licence compatibility when sharing code around > in KDE and to prevent issues like this.
I take some of this back, it's LGPL 2 only which can be converted to GPL 3 so it is compatible with LGPL 3. So Kate is compatible with its own licencing but not with KDE's licence policy. Jonathan _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
