Am Freitag, 10. Februar 2017, 14:54:52 CET schrieb Jonathan Riddell: > I'd like to get back to my proposed update of the KDE licence policy > > https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy/Draft > > I got some comments from Matija Šuklje which I incorporated and it now > includes a handy changelog. > > -Note that Qt is LGPL 3 not 2.1 > -Code copied from Qt can be GPL 3 as well as GPL 2, check comparible > with your code > -Allow AGPL for web apps > -Encourage AGPL for web apps > -Allow icons to be CC-BY-SA 4 > -Allow media files to be CC-BY-SA 4 and no longer allow CC-BY-SA 3 > -Note CC-BY-SA 4 is LGPL 3 compatible > -Documentation to be CC-BY-SA 4 > -MIT text now one of the more standard variants (modern style with > sublicence) -Links to SPDX licences > > The main change is for docs and other non-code files to become > CC-BY-SA 4. This allows it to be converted to code (it's one-way > compatible with LGPL 3) and allows us to share with other popular > sources such as wikipedia. CC-BY-SA 4 is also better maintained, > better understood and internationally recognised than the old FDL > licence. > I fail to understand why FDL is dropped for Documentation, content on userbase is still dual licensed (CC_BY-SA 3.0 and FDL 1.2) and even the Licensing_Policy/Draft content itself is available under Creative Commons License SA 3.0 as well as the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2
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