The last weeks I’ve mainly spend my time on the relicensing efford. Basically what it means is that we are trying to relicense all GPL2 files to a dual license GPL2&GPL3 or to ‘GPL2 or later’. It’s a task which on one hand is not very exciting (ok, boring is a better word), on the other hand it is interesting.

Interesting because you are talking to all kinds of people of the past. Delving in the history of the KDE contributors. We have some interesting tools like the website, and I’m learning GIT, which we use to store the mails people send us with approvals. Just for reference.

We see that the current set of contributors is easy reachable and motivated to relicense. Now that those contributors are almost all approached, we are now approaching the contributors who only contributed a few lines (but not ignorable) and contributors which haven’t contributed in years. These people are a lot harder to reach and less responsive, probably not reading there email every hour anymore.

Anyway, the work is progressing nicely, we are down to 850 files left todo, we started at 1100. Some modules like kdeedu, kdegames, kdesdk, kdegraphics are done, some are a lot more problematic like kdepim and kdelibs and base.

If you have not yet approved to the relicensing, please go to the techbase-project page. If you have any questions, find me on IRC or mail me (tomalbers@kde.nl).