Re: MPL2 instead of LGPL

2020-08-19 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
May I try to point out the elephant in the room? Most KDE applications and libraries are copyleft, with tremendous effort and contributions from a wide range of people. Since most of them belong to more than one author, it is not possible for a maintainer to simply re-licence an existing piece of

Re: MPL2 instead of LGPL

2020-08-19 Thread Sandro Andrade
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:27 PM Roman Gilg wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:01 PM Sandro Andrade wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 5:11 AM Roman Gilg wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Hi Roman, > > > > > * Proprietary code static linking LGPL code is not practically doable. > > > [5] See

Re: MPL2 instead of LGPL

2020-08-19 Thread Martin Floeser
Am 19. August 2020 19:27:09 MESZ schrieb Roman Gilg : On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:01 PM Sandro Andrade wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 5:11 AM Roman Gilg wrote: > > Hi, Hi Roman, > * Proprietary code static linking LGPL code is not practically doable. > [5] See also above ZeroMQ

Re: MPL2 instead of LGPL

2020-08-19 Thread Roman Gilg
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:01 PM Sandro Andrade wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 5:11 AM Roman Gilg wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Hi Roman, > > > * Proprietary code static linking LGPL code is not practically doable. > > [5] See also above ZeroMQ exception. > > This is a topic every now and then pops