Bug 380403

Summary:	License of plugins interface
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Artem <v.for.vandal>
Component:	Bundle-Tarball	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.1.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Artem 2017-05-31 21:09:47 UTC

Hello!

I'am working on QML bindings for libkipi (https://github.com/v-for-vandal/kipi-plugins/tree/qtquick) and those bindings reuse some files from common/libkipiplugins/tools. These files are under GPL license but I would like my bindings to be under LGPL license (otherwise no non-GPL application will be able to use them). Is there any way to change license of those files ? May be I can separate those files into their own library, say libkipiplugins-core ?

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2017-06-13 18:17:59 UTC

Gilles, can you check who is the maintainer of affected files? We might need to ask them all.

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2017-06-13 18:22:48 UTC

I already responded by mail send on kde-imaging mailing list...

Gilles

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2019-12-23 09:15:33 UTC

Artem,

digiKam do not use libkipi since 6.0.0, but we provide a new improved plugins interface only shared between digiKam and Showfoto.

This entry still valid with the new plugin interface ?

https://invent.kde.org/kde/digikam/tree/master/core/libs/dplugins

Best

Gilles Caulier

Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2020-08-01 21:53:51 UTC

No response from Artem. Closed