Bug 408071

Summary:	Inconsistent licenses in krita 4.2.0
Product:	[Applications] krita	Reporter:	Christophe Marin <christophe>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Halla Rempt <halla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	halla
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Christophe Marin 2019-05-29 14:11:25 UTC

As requested on IRC:

Among the new files in krita 4.2.0:

- Some are LGPL-2.1-only (gamutmask_plugin, KisGamutMaskChooser, logdocker)
- Some are GPL-3-or-later (in the plugin_importer)

and a few new BSD-2-Clause files.
A couple new files also don't have any license header at all.

In the previous versions, krita used these licenses:
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- LGPL-2.0-or-later
- LGPL-2.1-or-later
- CC0

Comment 1 Halla Rempt 2019-06-21 11:52:51 UTC

Looks like we have a lot of files that are lgplv2-only, not just a few new files.

Comment 2 Halla Rempt 2019-06-21 11:59:24 UTC

See https://invent.kde.org/kde/krita/merge_requests/50

I don't think that the new BSD files are a problem, and if we fix the lgplv2-only files, the new gplv3+ files are not a problem either: effectively, because of other 3rdparty code we have, Krita is already gplv3+.

Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2019-06-21 13:20:02 UTC

Correct, MIT, apache and BSD are generally fine.

Comment 4 Halla Rempt 2019-06-25 06:30:28 UTC

Should be resolved now.