Hi all,
[If you're in the CC: of this email explicitely, please reply to it in any
case.]
The short version:
Are you OK with changing the license in the unlicensed files you have
worked on in Plasmate to GPLV2+ and KDE e.V. approved licenses?
Longer version:
Over the weekend, I've had a closer look at Plasmate, to fix some bugs and
improve it here and there. It struck me that the licensing is currently
incomplete -- some files are missing a licensing header. If we want to release
Plasmate at some point, that's something we'll need to work out.
I started on this by streamlining the copyright headers (some used a short
form to refer to the GPLv2+, I've replaced those with the advised text at
http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#GPL_Header
There are still some files unlicensed at this point, though. I've asked Paul
Adams to help me a bit to sort out the people who have written or contributed
to these files, and thanks to grep, uniq, sort and svn log, I've compiled a
list of people per file that are the copyright holders according to svn log.
The list is:
---- *snip* ------
packagemodel.h
aseigo
asouza
casella
sandroandrade
shantanu
yuenlim
packagemodel.cpp
aseigo
asouza
casella
mart
sandroandrade
shantanu
yuenlim
sidebaritem.cpp
aseigo
casella
sidebartablewidget.cpp
casella
mlaurent
sidebartablewidget.h
casella
mlaurent
editors/editpage.h
asouza
mlaurent
shantanu
yuenlim
editors/editpage.cpp
aseigo
asouza
mlaurent
sandroandrade
shantanu
yuenlim
savesystem/tabledelegate.cpp
casella
savesystem/tabledelegate.h
casella
savesystem/tablewidget.cpp
casella
savesystem/tablewidget.h
casella
savesystem/timeline.cpp
aseigo
casella
coles
ilic
yuenlim
savesystem/timeline.h
aseigo
casella
yuenlim
savesystem/timelineitem.cpp
aseigo
casella
savesystem/timelineitem.h
aseigo
casella
---- *snip* ------
(I've *NOT* looked at the commits themselves, because I'm not in the position
to judge if a patch is too trivial or should include the author in the file's
copyright. A las, if you think your contribution to some file is trivial, let
me know and I'll not include your name in the copyright header. Otherwise,
please let me know if you're OK with changing the files you have been working
on to the GPLv2 or later, including the clausule
In order to protect your copyright in the future, please also consider signing
the KDE e.V.'s fiduciary licensing agreement, which is a safe construct to
keep copyright of KDE code intact and workable in case you are not available
for eventual licensing changes, should that ever become necessary. (Different
topic though.)
Please (ideally) send me an "I am OK with the licensing changes you propose.",
or in case you're not OK with it, let me know that as well and I'll see what
we can do about it. I kind of expect this to be an administrative thing, but
needs to happen nevertheless.
Thanks for your attention on this boring topic. :-)
Cheers,
--
sebas
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