Bug 353939

Summary:	license texts are missing
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kcoreaddons	Reporter:	Thomas Eschenbacher <Thomas.Eschenbacher>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michael Pyne <mpyne>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	alvarenga, devel, kdelibs-bugs, walch.martin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kcoreaddons/b4ccc6513b7106d81dbfd1f877a137dc190290c4	Version Fixed In:	5.25
Attachments:	about/license dialog of konsole

Description Thomas Eschenbacher 2015-10-15 20:43:47 UTC

I have ported my application to KF5 and wonder where I can get the full license texts (e.g. for GPL2+). I had that in my help/about dialog under KDE4, but now KAboutLicense::text() only returns one single sentence with the "ShortName".

In the source of kaboutdata.cpp (kcoreaddons-5.14.0 / Gentoo Linux) Isee that the code searches for a file "LICENSES/GPL_V2" in QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation (which is a list that contains "/usr/share") - but that does not work. I only have
/usr/share/apps/LICENSES/GPL_V2 - but that one belongs to an old KDE4 installation and is not found.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Peter Mühlenpfordt 2016-05-18 11:59:10 UTC

Created attachment 99047 [details]
about/license dialog of konsole

Same problem in my Kubuntu 16.04 installation.
Seems to affect any program using Qt5 libs.
E.g. konsole's about dialog does not show the complete license text.
The license files are located under /usr/share/kde4/apps/LICENSES/, which is missing in QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation.

Comment 2 Michael Pyne 2016-06-04 22:20:38 UTC

I'm working a fix for this at review request 128103 https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128103/

Comment 3 Michael Pyne 2016-07-07 23:57:06 UTC

Git commit b4ccc6513b7106d81dbfd1f877a137dc190290c4 by Michael Pyne.
Committed on 02/07/2016 at 21:40.
Pushed by mpyne into branch 'master'.

Install known licenses and find them at runtime (regression fix).
FIXED-IN:5.25
REVIEW:128103

M  +3    -0    src/lib/CMakeLists.txt
M  +20   -8    src/lib/kaboutdata.cpp
M  +2    -1    src/lib/kaboutdata.h
A  +124  -0    src/lib/licenses/ARTISTIC
A  +20   -0    src/lib/licenses/BSD
A  +8    -0    src/lib/licenses/CMakeLists.txt
A  +339  -0    src/lib/licenses/GPL_V2
A  +674  -0    src/lib/licenses/GPL_V3
A  +481  -0    src/lib/licenses/LGPL_V2
A  +502  -0    src/lib/licenses/LGPL_V21
A  +165  -0    src/lib/licenses/LGPL_V3
A  +103  -0    src/lib/licenses/QPL_V1.0

http://commits.kde.org/kcoreaddons/b4ccc6513b7106d81dbfd1f877a137dc190290c4