Re: Moolticute SPDX update

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On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 1:00 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 10:29 AM Arthur Bols <arthur@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm in the progress of migrating the Mooltice [0] package to SPDX, but
> > it proved to be more difficult than anticipated. I would be grateful if
> > someone could review my current analysis.
> > The license tag and accompanying comment I have at the moment is the
> > following:
> >
> >      # The entire source code is GPL-3.0-or-later except:
> >      # src/qwinoverlappedionotifier.[cpp|h] which is LGPL-3.0 OR
> > GPL-2.0-or-later,
>
> <projects mountain bike signal onto clouds>
>
> Jilayne, these files actually say LGPLv3 (ambiguous as to later
> versions but let's assume as a matter of common sense the Qt licensors
> intended LGPLv3 only), or:
>
> ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU
> ** General Public License version 2.0 or (at your option) the GNU General
> ** Public license version 3 or any later version approved by the KDE Free
> ** Qt Foundation.
>
> That is not equivalent to GPL-2.0-or-later, if you assume it is
> possible the KDE Free Qt Foundation might not approve the FSF's GPLv4,
> say; how should this be represented as an SPDX expression? Should a
> new GPL exception be submitted to SPDX? Is it even what SPDX would
> classify as an "exception"? Does there need to be a 'Qt GPL' SPDX
> identifier to cover this case, which I think is unique to Qt? Should
> we just represent it as 'GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only'? (Surprised if
> this hasn't come up before in an SPDX context.)
>
> >      # src/AnsiEscapeCodeHandler.[cpp|h] which is Qt-GPL-exception-1.0,
>
> More precisely, GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0, I think.
>
> >      # src/utils/qurltlds_p.h which is MPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later OR
> > LGPL-2.1-or-later,
>
> Given the nature of this file, I'd just omit this.
>

There are KDE exception clauses in SPDX: LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL
and LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-LGPL

They have not been added to mainline SPDX, and I'm not sure why.



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