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[Legal] Relicense GPL-2.0-only and LGPL-2.0-only files
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Some PIM repositories contain ancient code which ideally shall be relicensed.
The current situation is already problematic, mixing incompatible licenses is normally not allowed

  • GPL-2.0-only files shall be relicensed to GPL-2.0-or-later or GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL (ie: give authority to the KDE e.V. if the GPL-3.0 license has a successor in the future)
  • LGPL-2.0-only files shall be relicensed to LGPL-2.0-or-later or LGPL-2.0-only OR LGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-LGPL (ie: give authority to the KDE e.V. if the LGPL-3.0 license has a successor in the future)

This is a challenging task, some PIM files are more than 20 years old and not all contributors added their name to the relicensecheck.pl script.

Unreachable contributors:

  • Leo Franchi
  • Andreas Gungl

(last update: 2020-09-12)

GPL-2.0-only:

  • libkleo: 12 files
  • messagelib: 34 files
  • mailimporter: 58 files
  • mailcommon: 109 files
  • libksieve: 80 files
  • kdepim-addons: 39 files
  • kleopatra: 9 files
  • kmail: 82 files

LGPL-2.0-only:

  • akonadi: 2 files
  • kmime: 2 files
  • kimap: 1 file
  • kmbox: 1 file
  • messagelib: 2 files
  • kleopatra: 1 file
  • kmail: 2 files
krop created this task.Aug 14 2020, 11:39 AM
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krop updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 14 2020, 11:54 AM
vkrause added a subscriber: vkrause.Aug 14 2020, 1:27 PM

It seems that there are quite a few recent GPL-2.0-only files too, probably as a result of copy/pasting the license header, in particular in the autotests folders, so probably half of those files are "easy" to fix. The rest however is indeed going to be challenging.

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krop moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the KDE PIM board.Sep 12 2020, 11:47 AM
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