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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