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
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