On Friday 07 November 2008 3:43:43 pm David Faure wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > A Divendres 07 Novembre 2008, Tom Albers va escriure: > > > Op vrijdag 07 november 2008 00:50 schreef u: > > > > 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 > > > > > > dfaure pointed out that that would break bc... > > > > Why? Those libraries that would get the gpl suffix are not public at the > > moment, so there's no bc to maintain, right? > > Yeah I don't know the context. If no third party plugin/part/app relies on > these libs > then indeed there is no bc issue. > Come to think of it... yeah, why would 3rd party stuff try to link to kdepim libraries? I can't know for sure. But really they shouldn't be doing that.
So updated plan: - put the source into kdepimlibs/gpl. - make sure the doxygen main pages say GPL on them - clearly state in the kdepimlibs/README and kdepimlibs/POLICIES file that there is GPL code in here - install a _gpl suffix to the installed libs, i.e. libfoo_gpl.so Unless there are objections, I'd like to go ahead with this new plan. Probably start moving stuff for next Monday. -Allen _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team