Re: KDE in hamm is a mess

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>]

> We can't distribute KDE without Timothy O. Theisen's permission.  He
> wrote most ghostview, which is (c)1992 by him.  The KDE project took
> his GPL'd program an changed it to only work with Qt.
> 
> How many other programs did they do this with?  How many others could
> sue KDE for breaking their licence?

i warned the kde people more than one year ago, that this stuff will cause
trouble. but they did not hear ...

i can agree with you, that for every program written by none kde people, and
released under the gpl, debian should contact the author and ask him.

andreas


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