Re: Does KDE have a policy for shipping libraries licensed under the Apache license?

2022-12-19 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Montag, 19. Dezember 2022 23:34:11 CET Simon Redman wrote: > But my view don't matter, what matters is what happens in court, in the > event anyone ever accuses KDE of violating license terms. As I am not > qualified to expose KDE to any additional risk, is there a policy (or > accepted preceden

Re: Does KDE have a policy for shipping libraries licensed under the Apache license?

2022-12-19 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
Oops, I somehow misunderstood the question as being about iOS but it's actually Android. Do you work on both? Your name may be what confused me. My reply should still be applicable anyway, other than the specific examples and references to Apple :) > El 20 dic. 2022, a la(s) 01:41, Nicolás Alv

Re: Does KDE have a policy for shipping libraries licensed under the Apache license?

2022-12-19 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
(This is "as I understand it", not legal advice, I am not a lawyer, etc etc) The system library clause is, for example, what lets KDE Connect (under the GPL) link to the iOS system frameworks (under a proprietary license). System libraries have nothing to do with the Apache situation. GPLv2 and

Re: Does KDE have a policy for shipping libraries licensed under the Apache license?

2022-12-19 Thread Simon Redman
Hi Andrius, Thanks for your input. That is the textbook answer, but doesn't actually fit this case. GPLv3 is only compatible with Apache because it has an exclusion for system libraries, but KDE Connect is an Android app so there is no concept of system libraries. It doesn't get to the core of

Re: Does KDE have a policy for shipping libraries licensed under the Apache license?

2022-12-19 Thread Andrius Štikonas
Hi, Quick check seems to indicate that KDE Connect license is: *GPL-2.0-only* OR GPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL Apache v2 licensed code is not compatible with GPL-2.0-only but is compatible with GPLv3. So by combining KDE Conenct with that library you lose right to redistribute the

Does KDE have a policy for shipping libraries licensed under the Apache license?

2022-12-19 Thread Simon Redman
KDE Connect has had this PR languishing for a couple of years, with a question I am not able to answer. https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-android/-/merge_requests/192 The author has added a (very useful) library, which happens to be licensed under the Apache v2 license. KDE Connect co