ksquirrel license question

Sun Apr 13 18:18:33 UTC 2008

Neal Becker <ndbecker2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> * KSuirrel is under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (see LICENSE)

This is OK.

> * KSquirrel statically links against fmt_filters. See fmt_filters_README for
> more.

| Copyrights:
| 
| 
| * redeye
| --------
| 
| Red-eye removal was taken from "redeye" plugin for GIMP
| 
| /* redeye.c: redeye remover plugin code
|  *
|  * Copyright (C) 2004  Robert Merkel <robert.merkel at benambra.org>
| (the "Author").
|  * All Rights Reserved.
|  *
|  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
|  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
|  * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
|  * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
|  * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
|  * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
|  *
|  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
|  * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
|  *
|  * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
|  * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
|  MERCHANTABILITY,
|  * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
|  * THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
|  * IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
|  * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
|  *
|  * Except as contained in this notice, the name of the Author of the
|  * Software shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the
|  * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
|  * authorization from the Author.
|  */

The first 3 paragraphs match the "Modern Style with sublicense" variant of:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT
(except that the warranty disclaimer only has "AUTHOR" instead of "AUTHORS OR 
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS").
The 4th (last) paragraph matches the last paragraph of the "Modern Style 
without sublicense (Unicode)" variant.
Therefore, I believe this is OK and GPL-compatible.

| * most image processing filters ported from KImageEffect (KDE project,
| http://kde.org)
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 
| /* This file is part of the KDE libraries
|     Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 Daniel M. Duley <mosfet at kde.org>
|     (C) 1998, 1999 Christian Tibirna <ctibirna at total.net>
|     (C) 1998, 1999 Dirk A. Mueller <mueller at kde.org>
|     (C) 1999 Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen at stud.tue.nl>
|     (C) 2000 Josef Weidendorfer <weidendo at in.tum.de>
| 
| Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
| modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
| are met:
| 
| 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
|    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
| 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
|    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
|    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
| 
| THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
| IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
| OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
| IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
| INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
| NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
| DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
| THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
| (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
| THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
| 
| */

This matches:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#2ClauseBSD
(except that "FREEBSD PROJECT" has been replaced by "AUTHOR" in the warranty 
disclaimer, "OR CONTRIBUTORS" is not mentioned in the warranty disclaimer and 
the last paragraph about "views and conclusions" in the FreeBSD license is not 
present here).
This is OK and GPL-compatible.

> * some functions in SQ_GLWidget (see source code for more) are based on
>    original code by (C) Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz <at> yahoo.fr> in his
>    great GLiv project (under GPL).

This is OK.

> * "broken" pixmap was taken from the "Nuvola" icon theme for KDE.

Nuvola is LGPL according to:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Nuvola?content=5358
That's OK and GPL-compatible.

> * SQ_CategoryMenuBrowser is based on PanelBrowserMenu by (C) Matthias Elter
>    from kde-3.2.3. See ksquirrel/sidebar/sq_categorybrowsermenu.h for more.

| Copyright (c) 2001 Matthias Elter <elter at kde.org>
| 
| Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
| of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
| in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
| to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
| copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
| furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
| 
| The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
| all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
| 
| THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
| IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
| FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
| AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
| AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
| CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Matches http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT ("Modern Style with 
sublicense" variant, except "OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS" missing from the warranty 
disclaimer).

This is OK and GPL-compatible.

> * documenation for KSquirrel is under GFDL, see LICENSE.GFDL

This is OK (not GPL-compatible, but that's OK for documentation).

> * some files in admin/ are under LGPL, see LICENSE.LGPL

This is OK and GPL-compatible.

> * SQ_GLU namespace is under LGPL, see LICENSE.LGPL

This is OK and GPL-compatible.

> Acceptable?

Looks like it. The License tag will be a mess (it'll have something like "GPLv2 
and LGPLv2 and MIT and BSD and GFDL", I'll let you figure out what's 
GPLv2/LGPLv2 and what's GPLv2+/LGPLv2+), but that's pretty common 
unfortunately.

        Kevin Kofler