Re: [PATCH 1/7] gnu: Add KDE frameworkintegration.

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

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Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:

> Am 21.11.2016 um 18:25 schrieb Marius Bakke:
>>> > +    (license (list license:gpl2+ license:lgpl2.0 license:lgpl2.0+))))
>> Please clarify. Is it all of them, or either? Or is it mostly gpl2+, but
>> some files are covered by the other two?
>
> Thansk for reviewing that quick.
>
> The list of licenses is taken from Debian, which has a detailed lists of
> all the licenses used in each package. And KDE often has a *fast* number
> of different licenses in one package.

Thanks. Here is the Debian copyright file for this package:

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/f/frameworkintegration/frameworkintegration_5.28.0-1_copyright

Reading that, it seems this package is mostly gpl2 *OR* gpl3, and that
KDE invokes section 14 [0] of the GPL to decide whether later versions
are allowed.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html#section14

I wonder if we should seek a statement from KDE allowing the use of
GPL3+ for our packages.

Meanwhile, the way I read it, this package should be '(gpl2 gpl3 lpgl2.0
lgpl2.0+). I would change the comment to something like:

;; This is distributed under either gpl2 or gpl3, but some files are
;; covered by other licenses.

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