Licensing of kde-settings
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Aug 30 15:46:17 UTC 2011
Hi,
kde-settings currently has:
License: Public Domain
This made sense when all it contained was configuration settings such as
foo=false, which are clearly not a form of creative expression, but these
days kde-settings is growing some code snippets, e.g.:
* RPM dependency extractors
* possibly a Plasma initialization script
Those code snippets are probably copyrightable, and it is not legal for us
European contributors to just declare them Public Domain.
Therefore, I propose that we put kde-settings under the MIT License, in
particular this variant:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT#Modern_Style_with_sublicense
which is the default license for Code contributions to Fedora, and which is
effectively as permissive as Public Domain, but legally sound worldwide.
As a result, the License tag would change to:
License: MIT
Any objections?
Kevin Kofler
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