It's time for a new updates to the KDE Licensing Policy
The purpose of the policy is to ensure a common understanding of what
KDE code and contributions can be licenced as for copying. It should
allow maximum reusability amongst KDE and other free software groups
while ensuring people are encoura
On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 18:04:47 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> It's time for a new updates to the KDE Licensing Policy
>
> [...]
> Added:
> "Content on collaborative edited websites such as wikis must be
> licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0
> International."
> Ra
2016-09-20 14:04 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell :
> Added:
> ''Applications which are intended to be run on a server'' can be
> licenced under the GNU AGPL 3.0 or later
> Rationale: KDE Store code is under AGPL
> Question: should this be an option or a requirement for server software?
I agree with thi
On 2016-09-20, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Differences:
> Removed
> "code may not be copied from Qt into KDE Platform as Qt is LGPL 2.1"
> Rationale: Qt is now LGPL 3 as well as 2
Qt is not LGPL2.1 in general. As long as we want to be LGPL2.1 compat,
we can't copy code from Qt.
>
> Added:
> ''Appl
On 20 September 2016 at 20:42, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2016-09-20, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > Differences:
> > Removed
> > "code may not be copied from Qt into KDE Platform as Qt is LGPL 2.1"
> > Rationale: Qt is now LGPL 3 as well as 2
>
> Qt is not LGPL2.1 in general. As long as we want to b
On 20.09.2016 19:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
2016-09-20 14:04 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell :
Added:
''Applications which are intended to be run on a server'' can be
licenced under the GNU AGPL 3.0 or later
Rationale: KDE Store code is under AGPL
Question: should this be an option or a requirement f
On 20 September 2016 at 21:19, Thomas Pfeiffer
wrote:
> On 20.09.2016 19:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>
>> 2016-09-20 14:04 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell :
>>
>>> Added:
>>> ''Applications which are intended to be run on a server'' can be
>>> licenced under the GNU AGPL 3.0 or later
>>> Rationale: KDE
2016-09-20 16:30 GMT-03:00 Jaroslaw Staniek :
>
>
> On 20 September 2016 at 21:19, Thomas Pfeiffer
> wrote:
>>
>> On 20.09.2016 19:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>>>
>>> 2016-09-20 14:04 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell :
Added:
''Applications which are intended to be run on a server'' can be
On 20 September 2016 at 21:42, Nicolás Alvarez
wrote:
> 2016-09-20 16:30 GMT-03:00 Jaroslaw Staniek :
> >
> >
> > On 20 September 2016 at 21:19, Thomas Pfeiffer
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 20.09.2016 19:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 2016-09-20 14:04 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell :
>
> >>>
2016-09-20 16:53 GMT-03:00 Jaroslaw Staniek :
>
>
> On 20 September 2016 at 21:42, Nicolás Alvarez
> wrote:
>>
>> 2016-09-20 16:30 GMT-03:00 Jaroslaw Staniek :
>> >
>> >
>> > On 20 September 2016 at 21:19, Thomas Pfeiffer
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 20.09.2016 19:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>> >>>
On 20 September 2016 at 22:00, Nicolás Alvarez
wrote:
> 2016-09-20 16:53 GMT-03:00 Jaroslaw Staniek :
> >
> >
> > On 20 September 2016 at 21:42, Nicolás Alvarez <
> nicolas.alva...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 2016-09-20 16:30 GMT-03:00 Jaroslaw Staniek :
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 20 September 2
Certainly not. AGPL is like GPL in that sense, with the extra rule
that you must publish the source code even if you're only giving
access over the network and not distributing binaries.
I don't think an AGPL library makes much sense though.
ALGPL makes sense then :)
On the
On 20 September 2016 at 22:54, Thomas Pfeiffer
wrote:
> Certainly not. AGPL is like GPL in that sense, with the extra rule
>> that you must publish the source code even if you're only giving
>> access over the network and not distributing binaries.
>>
>> I don't think an AGPL libr
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:42:55PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2016-09-20, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > Differences:
> > Removed
> > "code may not be copied from Qt into KDE Platform as Qt is LGPL 2.1"
> > Rationale: Qt is now LGPL 3 as well as 2
>
> Qt is not LGPL2.1 in general. As long as we
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 09:17:57PM +0200, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> Precision is needed here; I can easily copy some Qt project's code and even
> relicense if I find it useful. I mean the BSD examples.
I hope that goes without saying
> If I have icons that are part of my LGPL framework, I don'
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 07:11:10PM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> > Rationale: we have no policy for wikis but they are very important to
> > us especially with wikitoLearn so we should add one. Our wikis are
> > currently CC 3.0+FDL but we should consider moving to CC 4.0 (CC
> > includes an or la
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 09:19:26PM +0200, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 20.09.2016 19:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> >2016-09-20 14:04 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell :
> >>Added:
> >>''Applications which are intended to be run on a server'' can be
> >>licenced under the GNU AGPL 3.0 or later
> >>Rationale:
On dinsdag 20 september 2016 22:54:54 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On the other hand: Is Qt still used much for web services?
It may in the future. During QtCon, Lars Knoll mentioned to make Qt render to
web browser as one possible future goal. We also have vague plans for kwin to
do that.
>
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 04:24:13PM +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On dinsdag 20 september 2016 22:54:54 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On the other hand: Is Qt still used much for web services?
>
> It may in the future. During QtCon, Lars Knoll mentioned to make Qt render to
> web browser as
Hi all,
On 20 September 2016 at 19:04, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Added:
> "Content on collaborative edited websites such as wikis must be
> licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0
> International."
> Rationale: we have no policy for wikis but they are very important to
> us
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 06:41:57PM +0200, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 20 September 2016 at 19:04, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > Added:
> > "Content on collaborative edited websites such as wikis must be
> > licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0
> > Internatio
On Friday, 23 September 2016 16:46:22 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 06:41:57PM +0200, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On 20 September 2016 at 19:04, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > Added:
> > > "Content on collaborative edited websites such as wikis must be
>
On 23 September 2016 at 18:52, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Still, as I mentioned, it would introduced problems if we move documentation
> forth and back from wikis to other formats, and also with mixing content from
> older documentation. I still don't buy the "cumbersome" argument, I don't
> think we
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 06:52:13PM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Still, as I mentioned, it would introduced problems if we move documentation
> forth and back from wikis to other formats, and also with mixing content from
> older documentation.
It would allow sharing content from wikis. Current
El dimarts, 20 de setembre de 2016, a les 18:04:47 CEST, Jonathan Riddell va
escriure:
> It's time for a new updates to the KDE Licensing Policy
kde-licens...@kde.org feels sad for not getting any news about this.
Cheers,
Albert
El dimarts, 20 de setembre de 2016, a les 18:04:47 CEST, Jonathan Riddell va
escriure:
> Changed:
> "Documentation must be licensed under the Creative Commons
> Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International"
> Rationale: Currently we use GNU FDL but that licence is unmaintained,
> little used, problema
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:28:37PM +0200, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Have you contacted the people that actually write docs if they are happy with
> you imposing a change on the docs they write?
>
> CC'ing them just in case they did not see it.
I'm not imposing :(
It's a suggested change we're
I've changed the recommended version of the MIT licence text in the
draft to the MIT Modern Style with sublicense. This is to put it in
line with OSI and Linux Foundation SPDX form.
https://community.kde.org/index.php?title=Policies%2FLicensing_Policy%2FDraft&type=revision&diff=74184&oldid=74120
El dijous, 29 de setembre de 2016, a les 9:32:00 CEST, Jonathan Riddell va
escriure:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:28:37PM +0200, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Have you contacted the people that actually write docs if they are happy
> > with you imposing a change on the docs they write?
> >
> > CC'
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:04:47PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Added:
> "Content on collaborative edited websites such as wikis must be
> licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0
> International."
> Rationale: we have no policy for wikis but they are very important to
> u
Jonathan Riddell ha scritto:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:04:47PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> Added:
>> "Content on collaborative edited websites such as wikis must be
>> licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0
>> International."
>> Rationale: we have no policy for wiki
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