Licensing of kde-settings

[Rex Dieter]

On 08/30/2011 10:46 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> 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.


no objection,  +1

-- rex