A Divendres 07 Novembre 2008, Allen Winter va escriure: > Howdy, > > Would it be possible to relax the licensing requirements in kdepimlibs to > permit GPL code? Currently, kdepimlibs requirements are the same as > kdelibs; i.e. only LGPL, BSD, X11. > > There are at least 4 GPL libraries in kdepim (libkholidays, libksieve, > kdgantt, libkleo) that would be very useful for kdebase, KOffice and > extragear. > > For example: > libkholidays could provide holiday info for calendar plasmoids > libksieve could allow Mailody to implement IMAP sieve filters > kgantt would allow KOffice Gantt charts without having to use the current > svn external etc. > > Attempts at relicensing these libraries has failed or is very difficult. > We have tried. > > I've been told that there was agreement at the last Akademy to allow > kdepimlibs to have GPL code?? If wasn't there so this is 3rd hand info. > > I'd like an official answer. Or another suggestion. > > Comments?
I'm not at all involved in kdepimlibs besides roaming const & fixes :D But this is my advice, if you are going to accept GPL libraries in kdepimlibs adding a _gpl suffix to them seems a good idea so people linking know they are linking to a GPL library. Albert > -Allen > > > _______________________________________________ > release-team mailing list > release-team@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team