Hi, here are the notes from our today's licensing BoF: **Notes** Notes from the Licensing & SPDX BoF * Licensing presentation: * CoLa: * I want to have a website with a positive message what each of our used SW licenses brings to the user. * Something to which the outbound license tags of the frameworks can point * https://phabricator.kde.org/T12094 * Users of such a page: * Add it to https://develop.kde.org/ ? -> yes * Link from kde.org/applications -> yes * put it on the new application website * Ideas? Good examples what others are doing? * see what create commons did * choosealicense.com * include Promo and website teams in discussion * https://develop.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/ has some text about what the licence means for you * --> further discussion, BoF tomorrow: 9UTC * KDE & REUSE/SPDX: where are we, next steps * source code repositories * focus on code files for now * anything else after that * encourage contributors to add themselves to copyright statement: add to HowTo, add to policy. -> CoLa * Idea: autogenerate the about data information from copyright statements -> TASK * What about newly created non-source-code files meanwhile? -> TASK, HowTo extension * Explain in licensing howto how to best add SPDX markers to XML files (e.g qrc, appdata) -> CoLa * translations * can be seen as derivative works * Messages.sh scripts (or their successors) could be extended to respect SPDX-License-Identifier marker and compute the PO file license * websites * there is a difference between content and code/formatting: * code is AGPL * content: could be either CC-BY-SA-4.0 or without SA -> needs to be clarified in policy, should be discussed on community list? -> Harald * do we want to achieve full REUSE compliance? * in the long run, yes * (see above, code first; anything else later; new files shall directly get marked correctly) * License Documentation Status * What is state of the wiki: HowTo + Policy * Explain how to add correct SPDX information to files wihtout copyright (CC-0 info) -> CoLa * Add section about license (in-)compatibility -> CoLa * SPDX & REUSE Conversion Q&A: * licensedigger usage questions? * license questions? * Breeze Icons and theme * possible license change * https://phabricator.kde.org/T12027 (So the style after all and not the icons?) * "Jan wants this done to get it into Qt" * how much LGPL-2.0-only & GPL-2.0-only code do we still have around that needs to be converted? * krop is working on this for PIM * CoLa is working on KF5 * anybody else is very welcomed to join this effort!
**Raw Discussion** [13:01] Jonathan Riddell : woo licences! [13:01] Volker Krause : did anyone copy the notes? [13:06] Tobias Fella : https://develop.kde.org/ [13:08] David Redondo : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ [13:08] Arjen Hiemstra : https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/ [13:08] Vlad Zahorodnii : is it okay to add questions in the shared notes? [13:08] Volker Krause : sure [13:08] Albert Astals Cid : or just speak :) [13:08] Adriaan de Groot : choosealicense.com [13:08] Adriaan de Groot : is github's license explainer [13:11] Luigi Toscano : so can't we just link that? [13:11] Harald Sitter : https://choosealicense.com/licenses/ [13:13] Harald Sitter : backing data appears https://github.com/github/ choosealicense.com/blob/gh-pages/_licenses/bsd-2-clause.txt [13:13] Albert Astals Cid : yep [13:13] David Redondo : https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/tree/gh-pages/_licenses [13:14] David Redondo : Oh to slow [13:14] Carl Schwan : Hi :) [13:15] Carl Schwan : tommorow morning [13:15] Carl Schwan : ok :) [13:16] FreeWear-Ramón : Hi Carl :) [13:16] Nicolas Fella : aslo kde connect [13:28] Carl Schwan : https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/ merge_requests/15 :) [13:34] Harald Sitter : https://reuse.software/faq/#bulk-license [13:43] Jonathan Riddell : https://develop.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/ [13:45] Carl Schwan : https://invent.kde.org/websites/kmymoney-org [13:46] Nicolas Fella : Rewrite everything [13:48] Johan Ouwerkerk : there's a difference between content & code right? [13:52] Johan Ouwerkerk : depending on license it also kind of doesn't matter too much because the site is consumed by people who aren't granted any rights (directly) [13:53] Johan Ouwerkerk : what volker says ^ [13:54] Volker Krause : ah, what Johan said :) (was reading notes, not chat) [13:55] Johan Ouwerkerk : CC-BY-SA-4.0, yeah [13:55] Johan Ouwerkerk : fits the general pattern of how we want to license "assets", right? [13:56] Johan Ouwerkerk : (as opposed to raw data for which we'd use CC0) [13:57] Carl Schwan : ok good idea to take it to the mailing list [14:04] Nicolas Fella : IIRC he wants it in Qt [14:05] Johan Ouwerkerk : flatpak has runtimes, so that's probably it right? [14:06] Carl Schwan : but that does Qt have to do with flatpak? [14:06] Johan Ouwerkerk : nothing, other than also being included in the runtime... [14:17] Carl Schwan : a gitlab project makes more sence [14:18] Albert Astals Cid : https://invent.kde.org/teams/flathub/issues/-/ boards [14:18] Carl Schwan : https://invent.kde.org/teams [14:19] Carl Schwan : thanks CoLa :) [14:19] Allyson Alexandrou : notes can be saved [14:19] Allyson Alexandrou : there is a download button :)