Re: MPL2 instead of LGPL

2020-08-19 Thread Mirko Boehm
Hello, > On 20. Aug 2020, at 01:25, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > > May I try to point out the elephant in the room? Most KDE applications and > libraries are copyleft, with tremendous effort and contributions from a wide > range of people. Since most of them belong to more than one author, it is

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

2020-01-14 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
ecs give a choice, the focus is on “use a common, machine-readable format”. I suggest we use SPDX. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: SPDX License Headers (for KF6)

2019-11-25 Thread Mirko Boehm
or our policy is the right approach. The alternative of using a combined SPDX expression may be correct, but it looses the details of our own policy. I support the suggested approach. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: 4th global climate strike - should KDE take action?

2019-11-04 Thread Mirko Boehm
n “the desktop should be as energy-efficient as possible”, for example). That would have a concrete impact on the community. See here, too: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg12 <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg12> Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. Qt

Re: Facebook's KDE Connector integration app

2019-04-17 Thread Mirko Boehm
elpref=faq_content > <https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1710077379203657?helpref=faq_content> Or use KDE e.V. for that. Since it is a legal entity, it is equivalent to a business. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist an

Re: FOSS-North 2019

2019-03-26 Thread Mirko Boehm
here from Sunday to Tuesday. Looking forward to seeing the KDE crowd there. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: Licensing policy change proposal

2019-01-28 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
nd are > hence public domain). There is a difference between something not being creative enough to be separately copyrighted and something being public domain. From one does not follow the other. If we need to discuss this, there are a couple of knowledgeable people on this list. However I

Re: Licensing policy change proposal

2019-01-28 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
tware license as it comes with other restrictions. The CC0 and other public domain licenses bring in complexity without a clear benefit. Cheers, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: Licensing policy change proposal

2019-01-28 Thread Mirko Boehm
e restriction. It's not unlike the > copyleft restrictions ("freedoms") of the GPL. It violates the Open Source definition, especially the rule against discrimination against use or user. This has been a long-time yardstick for the KDE community. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@

Re: Licensing policy change proposal

2019-01-27 Thread Mirko Boehm
e public domain. The correct way in for example France or Germany would be to use a permissive FOSS license. Let us avoid the mine field of public domain. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: Coming to FOSS-North?

2019-01-17 Thread Mirko Boehm
ght after it in Barcelona. I will try to arrive in time for the community day (April 7). Maybe there is a chance for dinner. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: Nominate key KDE frameworks and packages for inclusion in the OIN Linux System Definition

2018-08-30 Thread Mirko Boehm
Hi, > On 30. Aug 2018, at 05:46, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:53:39 CEST Mirko Boehm wrote: >> KDE software is covered in the definition, but not in the latest version. >> KDE 3 and 4 packages are included. > > Does any mainstream distr

Nominate key KDE frameworks and packages for inclusion in the OIN Linux System Definition

2018-08-29 Thread Mirko Boehm
to be completed by roughly mid 2019. Who wants to work with me on that? Best, Mirko. [1] https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/ <https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/> -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https:/

Re: FOSS-North

2018-03-01 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
it is right after the legal and licensing workshop, and we are hosting the Plasma sprint in our office in Berlin :-) However I would encourage submissions and, especially if there are interested local people, a booth. Cheers, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellowsh

Re: Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

2018-02-22 Thread Mirko Boehm
How about talking about the manifesto and our code of conduct, community principles. Any takers? I have submitted presentations about compliance tooling and OIN. Hope to see you at the event :-) Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellowship Representative, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: Goal: Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs

2017-09-06 Thread Mirko Boehm
Hi, > On 6. Sep 2017, at 11:04, Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > > what aboutextending the goal to embedded devices assuming mobile and > embedded are not much different? They are: mobile devices are end-user focused. Embedded devices are developer/manufacturer focused. Cheers, Mirko. si

Re: Survey for prioritization of requirements for an IM/chat solution for KDE

2017-08-18 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
ant low resource usage, but I also want a web app for platforms where no native clients are available. It did not take very long to fill in the survey. Thanks! Mirko. -- -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellowship Representative, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: Telemetry Policy

2017-08-17 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
and we're > striving to make privacy our USP. We seem to assume a contradiction between telemetry and privacy. I believe this is a knee-jerk reaction. We can implement telemetry in a way that privacy is not violated. In fact, I would say that it follows from our vision that we should do

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution (was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

2017-08-16 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
think this is exactly what is needed. The requirements collected right now are a superset of anything anyone could ever wish for. I am really interested in seeing them prioritised and the bottom 20% of them scrapped :-) Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellowship

Re: Telemetry Policy

2017-08-16 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
n here (your code might handle > this properly, I certainly wouldn't trust QNAM to do so given their > stance on optional behaviour in HTTP RFCs) Correct, QNAM doesn't support POST redirects itself. But since we deal with redirects ourselves anyway, that's not really an is

Re: Proposal: Have the Community Set Ambitious Goals for Itself

2017-08-14 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
nks for pushing this important topic. > > Yes, sounds like a good plan :-) I have seen only agreement and support for the porposal. What would be the required steps to make an official announcement, and encourage people to participate? Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V

Re: KDE at Qt World Summit 2017 - let's make it the best yet!

2017-08-09 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
's a great > opportunity to network as well as watch some interesting talks. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellowship Representative, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: We now have an Advisory Board

2016-10-03 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
advisory board. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm

Re: [kde-community] Results from the Mission Survey

2016-07-28 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
to the graphs and numbers, hoping that the results > will help us make confident decisions about our Mission statement (I think > they do). Thanks, all the best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https:

Re: [kde-community] A new home for Mozilla Thunderbird at KDE?

2016-04-26 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
>> say 'no' here. > > I'm going to second Eike here. My gut feeling says Thunderbird is > going to go the way of Apache OpenOffice, and we'd just be a graveyard > for it, not an incubator. +1. -1 for adopting Thunderbird. Unless a large group of contri

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

2016-04-21 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
outcome. +10^100. There *must* be an acceptable way to collect valid user feedback. It is vitally important to listen to our users, and to quantify their preferences, et cetera, et cetera. I see privacy being used as a catch-all argument to plainly refuse to collect any feedback. Can we pleas

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

2016-04-14 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
could be a way to turn it of for very privacy-sensitive users. Cheers, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

[kde-community] Fwd: Input for 'Future of the Internet' - 10 April

2016-04-08 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
Europe > Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 > Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/donate) > Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) - Weblog (k7r.eu/blog.html) > ___ > Discussion mailing list > d

Re: [kde-community] fosdem 2016

2016-01-20 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
otherwise I'll > just > head to my usual place and see what happens. (The main FOSDEM beer event is > generally too loud and crowded for my tastes). Same for me. I am up for something a bit more quiet on Friday. I also don’t mind drinking a beer or two at the main event and then reloc

Re: [kde-community] FiWG 15/01/2016 meeting minutes

2016-01-16 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
changes, we will tryt o get these from the accountants. > * Marta will acquire these reports from the accountant over the course > of the next week and we'll have another call to figure out the budget > once we have a better understanding of our accounting from the last 2 > year

Re: [kde-community] KDE dinner in Berlin - October 3

2015-10-01 Thread Mirko Boehm
Hi, I would love to attend, but we are hosting the FSF 30 year party in our office, and after that I have a personal family event. Good luck with the board meeting! Mirko. On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Stefan Derkits wrote: > Hello, > > On 2015-09-27 17:43, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > If

Re: [kde-community] Have repo maintainers opt-in for github mirroring (was: Re: Official KDE mirror on github)

2015-09-22 Thread Mirko Boehm
ith Git. David, you rock. Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

2015-09-16 Thread Mirko Boehm
Hehe, > On 16 Sep 2015, at 14:57, David Edmundson wrote: > > I am great. > > https://github.com/kde <https://github.com/kde> is now ours. Nice work, David. Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Req

Re: [kde-community] Phabricator: Make it happen already!

2015-08-27 Thread Mirko Boehm
+1! Yay! > On 27 Aug 2015, at 17:00, David Edmundson wrote: > > Same here. The Plasma team is in the process of migrating to phaaab! > already. > > To clarify, the mobile only stuff is currently in there for trial. > The rest is pending. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kd

Re: [kde-community] Evolving KDE - survey results

2015-07-23 Thread Mirko Boehm
ide the future objectives of the community on. Best, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm ___ kde-community mailing list kde-

Re: [kde-community] KDE office (was: Your KDE highlight of 2014?)

2015-01-01 Thread Mirko Boehm
Happy new year everybody! > On 29 Dec 2014, at 16:05, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Monday, December 29, 2014 13.43:44 Mirko Boehm wrote: >> the least of our worries. If a significant portion of commits are coming >> from that room, why wouldn’t it be a KDE office? :-) >

Re: [kde-community] KDE office (was: Your KDE highlight of 2014?)

2014-12-29 Thread Mirko Boehm
t too much worry into this. Having too many people that are over-eager to build and expand our community and it’s presence is probably the least of our worries. If a significant portion of commits are coming from that room, why wouldn’t it be a KDE office? :-) Happy holidays, Mirko. -- Mirko Bo

Re: [kde-community] Using software created by KDE and KDE-related communities/companies for KDE infrastructure

2014-09-18 Thread Mirko Boehm
ch focused on getting stuff done, but correctly. 95% of all "German law makes it impossible to do X" is hence FUD if any company can do X ;-) The remaining 5% is just handling the bureaucracy the right way. And keeping in mind that we are a not-for-profit operation. Cheers, Mirko. -- M

Re: [kde-community] Berlin - Brno road trip

2014-06-18 Thread Mirko Boehm
hncard 50. Cheers, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

Re: [kde-community] Berlin - Brno road trip

2014-06-11 Thread Mirko Boehm
t sharing the trip? >> >> Interested are at least : >> Lydia >> Andreas >> Patrick (from Dresden) >> Me > > Count me in as well, I'm also attending the general assembly. Please count me in as well. Looking forward to it. Mirko. -- Mirko B

Re: [kde-community] KDE Books

2014-03-05 Thread Mirko Boehm
> using such a book; feel free to forward it to others who might be > interested. > > Please speak up soon, so we can begin to make sure that all necessary > resources will be available that week. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Cert

Re: [kde-community] KDE Manifesto Revision (round 2)

2013-11-24 Thread Mirko Boehm
On 24 Nov 2013, at 11:17, Marta Rybczynska wrote: > Just a doubt about two lines: > Licensing policy must be respected. > branding guidelines are respected. +1. Is the "Increase your market visibility” still in, under “Benefits”? If so, I suggest that to be changed to simply "Increase your vi

[kde-community] Community Working Group is looking for a new member

2013-09-03 Thread Mirko Boehm
. Please consider volunteering for it. Cheers, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ kde-community

Re: [kde-community] Repeating concers regarding the KDE Free Qt Foundation

2013-09-01 Thread Mirko Boehm
ection in all such cases. In addition to protecting Free Software users > of > Qt, we have also accompanied various positive evolutions (relicensing to > LGPL, > inclusion of the Android platform, and especially the open governance of the > Qt Project). > > I invite develo

Re: [kde-community] Repeating concers regarding the KDE Free Qt Foundation

2013-08-29 Thread Mirko Boehm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/28/2013 09:13 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > By accident or not, very the same week I noticed concerns (probably > from the other camp) on reddit [1] and phoronix [2] about the KDE Free > Qt Foundation. If I understood what these comments about 'k

[kde-community] Summary of Friday's KDE e.V. General Assembly

2013-07-18 Thread Mirko Boehm
Hi, see here: http://creative-destruction.me/2013/07/18/kde-e-v-general-assembly-2013 Have fun, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | mi...@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist and Trainer ___ kde-community mailing list