On Monday, 9 May 2016, Martin Graesslin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > On Saturday, May 7, 2016 10:10:50 PM CEST Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: >> Hi, >> Is relicensing Breeze QStyle to LGPL from GPL for possible and acceptable? >> I've found cases when bits of the code beyond QStyle/KStyle API need >> to be reused. One example is: custom widgets. >> If we're considering Breeze QStyle as implementation of certain >> artwork, and KDE artwork in general would be LGPL also for >> consistency. >> For example wallpapers, icons are LGPL. >> >> Similarly I can only deduce that breeze/qtquickcontrols/* is GPL now, >> it's not clear in breeze.git. The same question here: can it be LGPL >> or BSD? >> >> Bottom line is: if we want to popularise our frameworks in the outside >> world... > > I fail to follow you why Breeze QStyle should be a framework. No framework > should depend on it, Breeze QStyle is a plugin and it's only getting loaded by > either setting an env variable manually or using the Plasma QPT plugin which > is not in Frameworks either.
Sorry for wrong selection of email. If someone is interested in a us case for apps I am sharing it below. I am saying certain *apps* can depend on the code that is not exported via the plugin interface. Such usage makes the code more like lib than a self contained plugin for QStyle. I am not saying that modern styling is a subject possible to design/distribute as a framework. Rather copy-paste is the ultimate way as we know in Qt Quick world. In the optimistic case -- a set of primitive painting functions. Hence the LGPL can be useful. > > Anyway on the question of whether to relicense to LGPL you should ask the > copyright holders and I doubt you found them here on frameworks-devel as > Breeze is not a framework. I'm one of the copyright holders and as I don't > understand why you want it relicensed I would not agree to it. I think GPL is > the proper license for our workspace components. > > Cheers > Martin -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
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