Bug 474947

Summary:	Licenses: "GPL-2.0-or-later" should probably not be on this project
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kconfig	Reporter:	Steve Cossette <farchord>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthew Dawson <matthew>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	kdelibs-bugs-null, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Steve Cossette 2023-09-27 18:39:15 UTC

This project shows as using the GPL 2.0 or later license, as seen here:

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/tree/master/LICENSES?ref_type=heads

But according to KDE's policies, it shouldn't:

https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy

Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2023-09-27 19:05:26 UTC

The two files are GPL-licensed are kreadconfig.cpp and kwriteconfig.cpp

These are the sources for the kreadconfig/kwriteconfig executables and not part of the config library. That means that these executables are GPL-licensed, but the actual KConfig library is still LGPL.

Comment 2 Steve Cossette 2023-09-27 19:17:50 UTC

Got it, thanks