Re: KDE but 356051 regarding dependency of kdepasswd on non-free Artistic License 1.0 From Geert JansenAdd contact To dwwAdd contact Date Today 18:09 Contact photo Message Body Hello, dual license under MIT + LGPL (v2.1 or later) is OK with me. Thanks, Geert On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:52 AM, dww wrote: Hello, We are trying to release the next version of gNewSense. We would appreciate it if you could agree to the change below soon. Thank you, Dennis On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 23:20 -0500, dww wrote: Hello, Thank you for your response. Would you please dual license kdepasswd under MIT + LGPL or under LGPL exclusively? Adding the MIT license to KAboutData in kdelibs would probably be quite a bit of work. I should also mention that LGPL is the standard license in KDE. Dennis On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 04:16 -0500, Geert Jansen wrote: Have a look at the bug below. It contains an email attachment where I relicense to MIT. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323427 Maybe an easier approach if you would agree to relicense kdepasswd under GPL or LGPL because then we could use the enum values of KAboutData::License_GPL_V3 or LGP_V3 in the KAboutData constructor. That way kdelibs would not have to be altered to support Artistic License 2.0 Thank Dennis Worthem On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 16:58 +0000, Worthem, Dennis wrote: On 2015-11-29 13:21, Geert Jansen wrote: Hello, I am not the maintainer of kdepasswd since at least 10 years... Where did you see that I'm the maintainer? Thanks, Geert On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Worthem, Dennis wrote: Hello, I hope I have reached Geert Jansen, the maintainer of kdepasswd. Would you please look at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356051 and let me know what you think. Thank you. Dennis Worthem In kde-baseapps-4.8.4 ( version used in Debian Wheezy) in /kdepasswd/passwd.h /* vi: ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 * * This file is part of the KDE project, module kdesu. * Copyright (C) 2000 Geert Jansen and in /kdepasswd/kdepasswd.cpp int main(int argc, char **argv) { KAboutData aboutData("kdepasswd", 0, ki18n("KDE passwd"), KDE_VERSION_STRING, ki18n("Changes a UNIX password."), KAboutData::License_Artistic, ki18n("Copyright (c) 2000 Geert Jansen")); aboutData.addAuthor(ki18n("Geert Jansen"), ki18n("Maintainer"), "jansen@kde.org"); aboutData.setProgramIconName( "preferences-desktop-user-password" ); This indicates that you were the maintainer in this version (4.8.4) used in Debian Wheezy. Perhaps you were removed as maintainer for later versions. I and/or you can check the latest versions. However, the use of KAboutData::License_Artistic indicates that Artistic License 1.0 is the license for any documentation of kdepasswd. We want to create version 4 of gNewSense as a derivative Debian Wheezy and reference the Artistic License 2.0. With you as the copyright holder we would need your permission. Would you please send such permission in an email unless you have already signed a FLA for kdepasswd? Thanks Dennis Worthem