18–25 Jun 2021
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SPDX License Markers in KDE - Progress Update

19 Jun 2021, 12:00
10m
Lightning Talk Track 1

Speaker

Andreas Cord-Landwehr

Description

SPDX is standard to add license information to source code files in a machine readable way. This is important because:

  • it allows automatic checking
  • it enables super cool new features that were not possible before
  • it prevents ourselves from accidentally providing software that has an unusable/conflicting license

In KDE Frameworks all non-deprecated parts already contain these markers, Plasma also did major work in this direction and similar efforts happened at further places in KDE. This talk will highlight what was achieved, where we are and it gives some ideas what people now can do with having license markers available.

Authors' Bio

Andreas joined the KDE Community in 2011 and since then primarily contributed to KDE's educational software applications. After his PhD in spring 2016 in the field of algorithmic game theory, he joined CLAAS E-Systems as a software developer. Today, he develops software for operator terminal ECUs for big agriculture machines.

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