Re: KDE liscence question
Randy Edwards <redwards@golgotha.net> writes:
> > The GPL is so incompatible with everything else that if it was a piece of
> > hardware you'd throw it out. ;)
>
> I look at it the other way. The GPL's been around for quite some time.
> It's written in fairly simple English and is a known quantity. If someone
> misuses/misreads the license to cause a problem, that problem is hardly the
> GPL's fault.
>
> The KDE situation could -- and I hope it is -- be solved very quickly and
> fairly easily if there existed the will to do so. Changing the GPL (thus
> impacting thousands of programs and an entire software genre) is not the
> proper solution, IMHO.
Just one word:
HOW?
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
PS: Not using GPL is not an option, at least not a quick one. Even
though the KDE people seem to work on removing all code that can't be
unGPL'ed.
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