Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Thanks for your work on this. Cheers Carl \ Original Message On 26 Jan 2020, 18:20, Andreas Cord-Landwehr < cordlandw...@kde.org> wrote: Hi, since no more comments came up, today I updated the licensing policy with the extensions to allow and even prefer SPDX markers in a way

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Hi, since no more comments came up, today I updated the licensing policy with the extensions to allow and even prefer SPDX markers in a way that is compatible with the REUSE.software specification: https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy/ As noted in the thread, the following

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Thanks for your clarifications. On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 5:43 PM Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > Is this OK for you that we postpone the above topics for a next iteration of > the policy? (Nothing prevents from starting a proposal just after the current > update :) ) Otherwise, these topics would

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Thanks for the detailed remarks! I will comment on them inline of the mail: > One thing that is not entirely clear to me is what our position would > be towards e.g. *.license files or DEP5 files as suggested by the > REUSE spec. > The current wording seems to suggest to me that these approaches

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

On Montag, 13. Januar 2020 20:50:30 CET Johan Ouwerkerk wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 3:19 PM Andreas Cord-Landwehr > > wrote: > > Moreover, I prepared a first version of a licensing howto and added it to > > the guidelines/howto section into the community wiki (please feel free to > >

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Hi, > On 13. Jan 2020, at 21:18, Johan Ouwerkerk wrote: > >> - current version of the draft: https://community.kde.org/Policies/ >> >> Licensing_Policy/Draft_SPDX_v2 >> > > One thing that is not entirely clear to me is what our position would > be

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 3:19 PM Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > > Hi, after the comments for my initial licensing policy draft, I prepared an > update: > > - current version of the draft: https://community.kde.org/Policies/ > Licensing_Policy/Draft_SPDX_v2 > One thing that is not entirely clear

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 3:19 PM Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > Moreover, I prepared a first version of a licensing howto and added it to the > guidelines/howto section into the community wiki (please feel free to update/ > extend/clarify it!): > -

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Hi, after the comments for my initial licensing policy draft, I prepared an update: - current version of the draft: https://community.kde.org/Policies/ Licensing_Policy/Draft_SPDX_v2 - diff with current policy: https://community.kde.org/index.php?

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

On Dienstag, 7. Januar 2020 06:33:11 CET Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > > Regarding the license statements for the "accecpted by KDE" clause: My main > motivation was to introduce a workaround with some licensing mixups we have > in our repositories. For example (there are many more, these are

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Hello, On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:43 PM Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > > On Sunday, 5 January 2020 16:40:20 CET Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > > Hi, I want to propose to allow SPDX-based [5] and REUSE.software [1] > > compatible license statements as a new option in our KDE licensing policy. > >

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:33 AM Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > On Montag, 6. Januar 2020 23:43:29 CET Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > [...] > > In general I think the proposal makes a lot of sense. It definitely is > going > > into the right direction. > > > > Regarding the

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

On Montag, 6. Januar 2020 23:43:29 CET Cornelius Schumacher wrote: [...] > In general I think the proposal makes a lot of sense. It definitely is going > into the right direction. > > Regarding the LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-(L)GPL texts: > > * What's the exact reasons for changing them compared to

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

On Montag, 6. Januar 2020 14:54:37 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Well done on taking the lead on this, it seems like a nice step forward in > making our licencing clear and consistent. > > Your changes to the policy all seem sensible. > > You have kept the licence paragraphs for the file headers

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

On Sunday, 5 January 2020 16:40:20 CET Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > Hi, I want to propose to allow SPDX-based [5] and REUSE.software [1] > compatible license statements as a new option in our KDE licensing policy. This is great. Thanks for working on this. Very nicely done. > Here is my policy

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

I'm all for it. It looks thorough, sensible and very useful. On zondag 5 januari 2020 16:40:20 CET Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > Hi, I want to propose to allow SPDX-based [5] and REUSE.software [1] > compatible license statements as a new option in our KDE licensing policy. > > For background

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

+1! More standardization and structure in the license information should simplify maintenance and validation of this information, even better if it's following a global standard :) Thanks for working on this, Volker On Sunday, 5 January 2020 16:40:20 CET Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > Hi, I

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Well done on taking the lead on this, it seems like a nice step forward in making our licencing clear and consistent. Your changes to the policy all seem sensible. You have kept the licence paragraphs for the file headers in the policy? Is that needed now with REUSE and SPDX? Can it not just be

Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

Hi, I want to propose to allow SPDX-based [5] and REUSE.software [1] compatible license statements as a new option in our KDE licensing policy. For background information about REUSE and SPDX and why it makes sense, I tried to aggregate the important information in a blog post and will not add