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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 08.03.19 um 19:01 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
> This makes sense to me.

Great!

I created two patches about this solution so it's also documented.
And I made a third patch which removes the additional key
metadata_license from the appdata.xml file. Feel free to amend the
patches if required.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert

From 34bd245a89c2aeecdb5db8814e77417003659762 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 18:57:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Adding license information for demo files

The demo files are covered by the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.
Please note some discussion about this on the developers mailing list:

https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg39174.html
---
 LICENSE.README | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/LICENSE.README b/LICENSE.README
index 8f291c120..34793d27d 100644
--- a/LICENSE.README
+++ b/LICENSE.README
@@ -15,5 +15,7 @@ Licensed under BOOSTv1:
 - libcontext [https://github.com/boostorg/context], sources in common/system/libcontext.cpp
 Licensed under ISC:
 - portions of code in include/geometry/polygon_triangulation.h
+Licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0:
+- All the demo files provided in demos/*
 Licensed under GPLv3 (or later):
-- All remaining code not listed above
\ No newline at end of file
+- All remaining code not listed above
-- 
2.20.1

From a02fe585e6b6183e19238c8a6881b09e66856827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 19:02:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Adding license text for CC-BY-SA-4.0 for completeness

As for the other used licenses adding also the license content for the
CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.
---
 LICENSE.CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 255 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 255 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 LICENSE.CC-BY-SA-4.0

diff --git a/LICENSE.CC-BY-SA-4.0 b/LICENSE.CC-BY-SA-4.0
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..39ffbb4b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE.CC-BY-SA-4.0
@@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
+Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License
+
+By exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to
+be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons
+Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License ("Public License").
+To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, You are
+granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your acceptance of these
+terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants You such rights in
+consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed
+Material available under these terms and conditions.
+
+Section 1 – Definitions.
+
+a.  Adapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights
+    that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the
+    Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or
+    otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright
+    and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public
+    License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or
+    sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed
+    Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.
+b.  Adapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and
+    Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance
+    with the terms and conditions of this Public License.
+c.  BY-SA Compatible License means a license listed at
+    creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses, approved by Creative Commons as
+    essentially the equivalent of this Public License.
+d.  Copyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely
+    related to copyright including, without limitation, performance,
+    broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without
+    regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this
+    Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not
+    Copyright and Similar Rights.
+e.  Effective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence
+    of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling
+    obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on
+    December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.
+f.  Exceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other
+    exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to
+    Your use of the Licensed Material.
+g.  License Elements means the license attributes listed in the name of a
+    Creative Commons Public License. The License Elements of this Public
+    License are Attribution and ShareAlike.
+h.  Licensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other
+    material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.
+i.  Licensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and
+    conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and
+    Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that
+    the Licensor has authority to license.
+j.  Licensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this
+    Public License.
+k.  Share means to provide material to the public by any means or process thati
+    requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction,
+    public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination,
+    communication, or importation, and to make material available to the
+    public including in ways that members of the public may access the
+    material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.
+l.  Sui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting
+    from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11
+    March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or
+    succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the
+    world.
+m.  You means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under
+    this Public License. Your has a corresponding meaning.
+
+Section 2 – Scope.
+
+a.  License grant.
+    1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the
+       Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free,
+       non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the
+       Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:
+        A. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part; and
+        B. produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material.
+    2. Exceptions and Limitations. For the avoidance of doubt, where Exceptions
+       and Limitations apply to Your use, this Public License does not apply,
+       and you do not need to comply with its terms and conditions.
+    3. Term. The term of this Public License is specified in Section 6(a).
+    4. Media and formats; technical modifications allowed. The Licensor
+       authorizes You to exercise the Licensed Rights in all media and formats
+       whether now known or hereafter created, and to make technical
+       modifications necessary to do so. The Licensor waives and/or agrees not
+       to assert any right or authority to forbid You from making technical
+       modifications necessary to exercise the Licensed Rights, including
+       technical modifications necessary to circumvent Effective Technological
+       Measures.  For purposes of this Public License, simply making
+       modifications authorized by this Section 2(a)(4) never produces Adapted
+       Material.
+    5. Downstream recipients.
+        A. Offer from the Licensor – Licensed Material. Every recipient of the
+           Licensed Material automatically receives an offer from the Licensor
+           to exercise the Licensed Rights under the terms and conditions of
+           this Public License.
+        B. Additional offer from the Licensor – Adapted Material. Every
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+           Effective Technological Measures to, the Licensed Material if doing
+           so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any recipient of
+           the Licensed Material.
+    6. No endorsement. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be
+       construed as permission to assert or imply that You are, or that Your
+       use of the Licensed Material is, connected with, or sponsored,
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+       designated to receive attribution as provided in Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i).
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+b.  Other rights.
+    1. Moral rights, such as the right of integrity, are not licensed under
+       this Public License, nor are publicity, privacy, and/or other similar
+       personality rights; however, to the extent possible, the Licensor
+       waives and/or agrees not to assert any such rights held by the Licensor
+       to the limited extent necessary to allow You to exercise the Licensed
+       Rights, but not otherwise.
+    2. Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License.
+    3. To the extent possible, the Licensor waives any right to collect
+       royalties from You for the exercise of the Licensed Rights, whether
+       directly or through a collecting society under any voluntary or
+       waivable statutory or compulsory licensing scheme. In all other cases
+       the Licensor expressly reserves any right to collect such royalties.
+
+Section 3 – License Conditions.
+
+Your exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the
+following conditions.
+
+a.  Attribution.
+    1. If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You
+       must:
+        A. retain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the
+           Licensed Material:
+         i. identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any
+            others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner
+            requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);
+        ii. a copyright notice;
+       iii. a notice that refers to this Public License;
+        iv. a notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties;
+         v. a URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent
+            reasonably practicable;
+        B. indicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an
+           indication of any previous modifications; and
+        C. indicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public
+           License, and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, this
+           Public License.
+    2. You may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any reasonable
+       manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share the
+       Licensed Material. For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy the
+       conditions by providing a URI or hyperlink to a resource that includes
+       the required information.
+    3. If requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information
+       required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable.
+
+b.  ShareAlike.
+    In addition to the conditions in Section 3(a), if You Share Adapted
+    Material You produce, the following conditions also apply.
+    1. The Adapter’s License You apply must be a Creative Commons license with
+       the same License Elements, this version or later, or a BY-SA Compatible
+       License.
+    2. You must include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, the Adapter's
+       License You apply. You may satisfy this condition in any reasonable
+       manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share
+       Adapted Material.
+    3. You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or
+       conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to,
+       Adapted Material that restrict exercise of the rights granted under the
+       Adapter's License You apply.
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+Section 4 – Sui Generis Database Rights.
+
+Where the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that apply to
+Your use of the Licensed Material:
+a. for the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1) grants You the right to
+   extract, reuse, reproduce, and Share all or a substantial portion of the
+   contents of the database;
+b. if You include all or a substantial portion of the database contents in a
+   database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights, then the database
+   in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights (but not its individual
+   contents) is Adapted Material, including for purposes of Section 3(b); and
+c. You must comply with the conditions in Section 3(a) if You Share all or a
+   substantial portion of the contents of the database.
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+Your obligations under this Public License where the Licensed Rights include
+other Copyright and Similar Rights.
+
+Section 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.
+
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+   possible, the Licensor offers the Licensed Material as-is and as-available,
+   and makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the
+   Licensed Material, whether express, implied, statutory, or other. This
+   includes, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, fitness
+   for a particular purpose, non-infringement, absence of latent or other
+   defects, accuracy, or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not
+   known or discoverable. Where disclaimers of warranties are not allowed in
+   full or in part, this disclaimer may not apply to You.
+b. To the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be liable to You on
+   any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise
+   for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive,
+   exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out of
+   this Public License or use of the Licensed Material, even if the Licensor
+   has been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or
+   damages. Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in
+   part, this limitation may not apply to You.
+c. The disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided above
+   shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most
+   closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.
+
+Section 6 – Term and Termination.
+
+a. This Public License applies for the term of the Copyright and Similar
+   Rights licensed here. However, if You fail to comply with this Public
+   License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate
+   automatically.
+b. Where Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under
+   Section 6(a), it reinstates:
+   1. automatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it is
+      cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or
+   2. upon express reinstatement by the Licensor.
+   For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right
+   the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public
+   License.
+c. For the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the Licensed
+   Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the
+   Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate this
+   Public License.
+d. Sections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public License.
+
+Section 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.
+
+a. The Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or
+   conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.
+b. Any arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed
+   Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the terms
+   and conditions of this Public License.
+
+Section 8 – Interpretation.
+
+a. For the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall not
+   be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions on any use
+   of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made without permission
+   under this Public License.
+b. To the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is deemed
+   unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the minimum extent
+   necessary to make it enforceable. If the provision cannot be reformed, it
+   shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the
+   enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.
+c. No term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure
+   to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.
+d. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a
+   limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to
+   the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction
+   or authority.
-- 
2.20.1

From 6d19d3e3239fd3bb8523dc31943c4fcdbf1f2493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 19:06:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] appdata.xml: Remove additional license metadata

The extra field metadata is not really needed nor helpful as various
other additional licenses are used within the KiCad project.
All used licenses are documented with the file LICENSE.README within top
root folder of the source.
---
 resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml b/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
index 2fc29f0c1..5cb58bd9a 100644
--- a/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
+++ b/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
   <id>kicad.desktop</id>
   <name>KiCad</name>
   <project_license>AGPL-3.0+</project_license>
-  <metadata_license>CC-BY-SA-4.0</metadata_license>
   <summary>EDA Suite</summary>
   <summary xml:lang="de">EDA Lösung</summary>
   <summary xml:lang="it">Suite EDA</summary>
-- 
2.20.1