Re: KDE in hamm is a mess

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> writes:

> > 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.

I'm waiting to see what happens when people start porting KDE programs
to Gnome.


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu



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