I got an email from someone who appears to be helping KDE out with switching their licences. I guess at some point the guys decided that nothing in KDE shall be licenced GPLv2 only, and that’s the request I got – change the licence to “GPL2 or 3” or “GPL2 or later”.<\/p>\n
Here are a couple of links describing the process:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/techbase.kde.org\/Policies\/Licensing_Policy<\/a> I’m not surprised to see only people names listed on the second page, no project names. I wonder how much software KDE plans to scrap<\/em> just because of some overly idealistic dudes with big beards decided the new GPL is much better and must be incompatible with the old GPL.<\/p>\n My piece of code in there is bkisofs – a library for reading and writing ISO files which is being used by Ark (the KDE archive manager). The integration was not my doing, I only helped – but the library itself is mine. KDE won’t explode the funcionality is removed from Ark.<\/p>\n I haven’t replied to the request yet. On the one hand I don’t care if it’s licenced GPL2 or 3, the changes I recall don’t affect this particular software. On the other hand – I am opposed to the GPL3 as a matter of principle, and I don’t like bending over or getting strong-armed into doing things with my volunteer time.<\/p>\n And if I allow this, that will count as a contribution to GPL3 zealotry.<\/p>\n I’ll go review the GPL3 some time in the next few days. If anyone still reads my blog and has ideas one way or the other – please share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got an email from someone who appears to be helping KDE out with switching their licences. I guess at some point the guys decided that nothing in KDE shall be licenced GPLv2 only, and that’s the request I got – change the licence to “GPL2 or 3” or “GPL2 or later”. Here are a … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-88","6":"format-standard","7":"category-opensource","8":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/techbase.kde.org\/Projects\/KDE_Relicensing<\/a><\/p>\n