Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 22 September 2021 03:57:37 PDT Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I think I'd be against adding it to the policy, the aim of the policy has > always been to keep it simple which licence to use so ensure code and be > swapped around within and outwith KDE with minimal worry about different >

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-22 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 13:40, Luigi Toscano wrote: > Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > > I don't think it needs to be restricted to infrastructural tooling, > maybe just > > a line somewhere saying Apache 2 is an option if needed for code sharing > > compatibility with third party projects. > >

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-22 Thread Luigi Toscano
Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > I don't think it needs to be restricted to infrastructural tooling, maybe just > a line somewhere saying Apache 2 is an option if needed for code sharing > compatibility with third party projects. That still prevents the usage of Apache 2.0 from scratch, as someone

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-22 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I don't think it needs to be restricted to infrastructural tooling, maybe just a line somewhere saying Apache 2 is an option if needed for code sharing compatibility with third party projects. Jonathan

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-22 Thread Luigi Toscano
Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > I think I'd be against adding it to the policy, the aim of the policy has > always been to keep it simple which licence to use so ensure code and be > swapped around within and outwith KDE with minimal worry about different > licences.  Apache 2 doesn't add any

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-22 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I think I'd be against adding it to the policy, the aim of the policy has always been to keep it simple which licence to use so ensure code and be swapped around within and outwith KDE with minimal worry about different licences. Apache 2 doesn't add any useful use case to our licences that isn't

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-17 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 17 September 2021 08:41:08 PDT Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > Yet no, it is not orthogonal IMHO, because our license list strives for > compatibility between the licenses in our code base. If we would say that > the GPL-2.0-only files are legacy/policy violation/or just deprecated, then

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-17 Thread Andreas Cord-Landwehr
On Freitag, 17. September 2021 07:42:05 CEST Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Thursday, 16 September 2021 10:58:55 PDT Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > > Hi, now with the very recent release of openssl 3.0 [1], I think we have > > to > > eventually face the question what to do in this regard. But the not

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-16 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 16 September 2021 10:58:55 PDT Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > Hi, now with the very recent release of openssl 3.0 [1], I think we have to > eventually face the question what to do in this regard. But the not too > small number of historic GPL-2.0-only files [2] yet is a problem.

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-16 Thread Aditya Mehra
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 5:12 AM To: informing about and discussing non-technical community topics Subject: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0 Hi, Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-16 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 21:42:24 CEST Alexander Potashev wrote: > Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed > under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE licensing > policy. > """ > 4. Source files that are part of a library with a public API which is >

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-16 Thread Andreas Cord-Landwehr
On Mittwoch, 15. September 2021 21:50:13 CEST Luigi Toscano wrote: > Alexander Potashev ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed > > under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE licensing > > policy. > > > > Considering Apache-2.0 is

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-15 Thread Luigi Toscano
Alexander Potashev ha scritto: > Hi, > > Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed > under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE licensing > policy. > > Considering Apache-2.0 is similar to MIT, I don't see why it shouldn't > be allowed by the policy. Is anyone

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-15 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mercredi 15 septembre 2021 à 9:42 PM, Alexander Potashev a écrit : > Hi, > Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed > under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE licensing > policy. > > Considering Apache-2.0 is similar to MIT, I don't see why it shouldn't

Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-15 Thread Alexander Potashev
Hi, Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE licensing policy. Considering Apache-2.0 is similar to MIT, I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed by the policy. Is anyone aware of past discussions of the KDE licensing