Question about Licenses.

2019-09-15 Thread marinus.savoritias
Hi Everyone.  My name is Fanis and I am a new Guix user coming from Gentoo. I am very interested in the license around the packages I use and I can help but notice some inconsistencies. For example: kdenlive is GPL-2 in the gentoo repositories. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/kde-apps/kden

Re: Question about Licenses.

2019-09-15 Thread marinus.savoritias
Hi Ricardo, Ok I got it. That raises three questions for me though.   1.) I remember from what I have read on gnu.org that if one part of the program is GPL-3 or in general GPL that means everything becomes GPL. So as I understand that is the reason the program becomes GPL-2+, correct? Or does t

Kdenlive License follow-up.

2019-09-18 Thread marinus.savoritias
Hi, I asked on the KDE matrix server regarding the Kdenlive licensing and turns out they use GPL-3 in OpenSUSE. Most files are either GPL-2 or GPL-3 or later + KDE Ev. clause so the package can't be licensed as GPL-2 like Gentoo or GPL-2+ as in Guix. As far as I know if a package has some GPL-3