[License-review] For Legacy Approval: LGPL-2+-KDE

[Adriaan de Groot]

Thank you, John, Pamela and Lukas. I was vaguely under the impression that an 
approval from OSI was needed before asking for an SPDX identifier. I'll tidy 
up the documentation (and figure out if we really do mean LGPL 2.0 or LGPL 
2.1) and shop it around there.

Best,
[ade]

On Wednesday, 18 December 2019 20:47:57 CET John Cowan wrote:
> Adriaan:
> 
> I think the right course is to use "LGPL-2.0-or-later-with-kde-exception"
> and then ask SPDX directly to create "kde-exception".  You can see the
> current SPDX exceptions at
> <https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html>, and the process document
> is <
> https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>.
> 
>  By the way, is it LGPL 2.0 or 2.1?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 9:05 AM Pamela Chestek <
> 
> pamela.chestek at opensource.org> wrote:
> > Hi Adriaan,
> > 
> > As suggested by Lukas, this is not a new license but a statement about
> > various licenses that may be used. Because it is not a license per se, it
> > is out of scope or the license review process. We will therefore not be
> > reviewing it.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Pamela Chestek
> > Chair, License Review Committee
> > Open Source Initiative
> > 
> > On 12/4/2019 1:49 PM, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > 
> > The KDE community is a Free Software and Open Source community that has
> > been around for almost 25 years [1]. We have had a licence policy [2] for
> > quite some time that says "LGPL version 2.1 or LGPL version 3 or a later
> > LGPL version as approved by KDE e.V.". Well, the text isn't **exactly**
> > that, and it gets written down in source files in various ways. Here is
> > an example:
> > 
> > 
> > This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> > License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> > version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) version 3, or any
> > later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its
> > successor approved by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall
> > act as a proxy defined in Section 6 of version 3 of the license.
> > 
> > The boilerplate text provided by our policy is on our wiki [3].
> > 
> > For the purpose of obtaining an SPDX identifier, we are requesting a
> > license review of this particular construction: LGPL 2-or-3-or-later with
> > a specific third-party named to bless those later versions. That is why
> > I'm not going to put in the complete text of the LGPL 2.1 and LGPL 3.
> > 
> > [ade] (KDE e.V. board of directors)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [1] https://kde.org/
> > [2] https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
> > [3] https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#LGPL_Header
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > License-review mailing
> > listLicense-review at lists.opensource.orghttp://lists.opensource.org/mailma
> > n/listinfo/license-review_lists.opensource.org
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > License-review mailing list
> > License-review at lists.opensource.org
> > 
> > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-review_lists.opensour
> > ce.org