Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 22 September 2021 03:57:37 PDT Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> I think I'd be against adding it to the policy, the aim of the policy has
> always been to keep it simple which licence to use so ensure code and be
> swapped around within and outwith KDE with minimal worry about different
> licences.  Apache 2 doesn't add any useful use case to our licences that
> isn't already covered by another one, it's just a bit more explicit about
> the intended uses.

If we add it, I recommend we add instead "Apache2 OR GPL-2.0-or-later". It 
can't be Apache 2 only.

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Re: Extending the license policy to include ODbL-1.0

[Volker Krause]

done

On Mittwoch, 22. September 2021 23:20:56 CEST Alexander Potashev wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> Could you please update the changelog section
> https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#Changelog ?
> 
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 5:38 PM Volker Krause  wrote:
> > Thanks everyone, I've added the suggested change to the wiki now.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Volker
> > 
> > On Mittwoch, 15. September 2021 17:26:57 CEST Volker Krause wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > there's a MR [1] for ki18n containing data tables generated from OSM
> > > data,
> > > which implies the ODbL-1.0 license [2]. We also already have other
> > > places
> > > ([3], [4]) actually doing this.
> > > 
> > > However that's a license not yet covered by our license policy, so I
> > > suggest we add it.
> > > 
> > > ODbL is essentially LGPL-y but for data rather than code, so
> > > conceptually
> > > compatible with our existing licensing.
> > > 
> > > It's also not like there's any viable alternative to OSM data, so not
> > > doing
> > > this would imply not being able to implement features integrating
> > > OSM-derived data.
> > > 
> > > The proposed addition to the policy section of
> > > https://community.kde.org/
> > > Policies/Licensing_Policy would be:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > # ''Geographic data'', in particular data based on or derived from
> > > OpenStreetMap may be licensed under the '''[https://spdx.org/licenses/
> > > ODbL-1.0.html Open Data Commons Open Database License v1.0]'''.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Volker
> > > 
> > > [1] https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ki18n/-/merge_requests/19
> > > [2] https://spdx.org/licenses/ODbL-1.0.html
> > > [3]
> > > https://invent.kde.org/pim/kitinerary/-/blob/master/src/lib/knowledgedb
> > > / timezonedb_data.cpp
> > > [4]
> > > https://invent.kde.org/libraries/kpublictransport/-/blob/master/src/lib
> > > / knowledgedb/linemetadata_data.cpp



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Re: The KDE Network America

[Aniqa Khokhar]

Sure, we can change it. Thank you for informing us.

Regards,
Aniqa Khokhar (She/her)


From: Paul Brown 
Sent: 23 September 2021 11:27 AM
To: kde-community@kde.org 
Cc: bhavishadhr...@gmail.com ; Aniqa Khokhar 

Subject: Re: The KDE Network America

On Thursday, 23 September 2021 10:56:37 CEST Aniqa Khokhar wrote:
> Dear Community,
>
> We are starting the KDE Network in the US
> (https://community.kde.org/The_KDE_Network), as we would like to support
> and promote KDE there.
>
> Bhavisha Dhruve (also copied in this email) is part of the team. We would
> like more members from the Community living in the US to join the team.
>
> If you are interested, we can provide more information. Please feel free to
> contact Bhavisha or me.
>

Great news, Aniqa and Bhavisha! I am looking forward to see how this grows.

I just have a small request on behalf of our friends in the non-US Americas:
Can we avoid referring to the US as "America" in our communications, please?
As many Mexicans, Argentinians, Peruvians, Hondurans, Brasilians and so on
will rightly remind us, their countries are also "America". It is an act of
imperialistic and offensive hubris towards non-US Americans to refer to one
single country with that name.

So, instead of "KDE Network America", can we make the point of always
referring to our organisation as "KDE Network US" or "KDE Network USA",
please?

Cheers

Paul
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Re: The KDE Network America

[Paul Brown]

On Thursday, 23 September 2021 10:56:37 CEST Aniqa Khokhar wrote:
> Dear Community,
> 
> We are starting the KDE Network in the US
> (https://community.kde.org/The_KDE_Network), as we would like to support
> and promote KDE there.
> 
> Bhavisha Dhruve (also copied in this email) is part of the team. We would
> like more members from the Community living in the US to join the team.
> 
> If you are interested, we can provide more information. Please feel free to
> contact Bhavisha or me.
> 

Great news, Aniqa and Bhavisha! I am looking forward to see how this grows.

I just have a small request on behalf of our friends in the non-US Americas: 
Can we avoid referring to the US as "America" in our communications, please? 
As many Mexicans, Argentinians, Peruvians, Hondurans, Brasilians and so on 
will rightly remind us, their countries are also "America". It is an act of 
imperialistic and offensive hubris towards non-US Americans to refer to one 
single country with that name.

So, instead of "KDE Network America", can we make the point of always 
referring to our organisation as "KDE Network US" or "KDE Network USA", 
please?

Cheers

Paul
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The KDE Network America

[Aniqa Khokhar]

Dear Community,

We are starting the KDE Network in the US 
(https://community.kde.org/The_KDE_Network), as we would like to support and 
promote KDE there.

Bhavisha Dhruve (also copied in this email) is part of the team. We would like 
more members from the Community living in the US to join the team.

If you are interested, we can provide more information. Please feel free to 
contact Bhavisha or me.

Thank you.

Regards,
Aniqa Khokhar l She/her
--
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www: http://kde.org
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