Hi Jonathan, On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > I've made some proposed changes to the KDE Licensing Policy > > http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy/Draft > > Most significant is the inclusion of GPL 3+ as an option in response > to a request by GCompris and a desire voiced by a few people not to > treat it as an exception. > > Our current policy is designed to allow maxium code reuse around KDE > and beyond, allowing GPL 3+ would mean some code could not be reused > in GPL 2+ code without a relicence, but as pointed out this problem > already happens when moving GPL 2 code to platform. The policy has > nothing to do with whether GPL 2 or 3 is more or less commercially > acceptable. Given a blank sheet I'd pick GPL 3 every time as it > prevents DRM lock-in and patent abuse.
Would it be possible to incorporate this important information in some way into the infrastructure? I think it would be useful when deciding about licenses. I believe the more we can do for aiding the selection for our developers, the better. _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community