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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: The GNOME Desktop project (fwd)
From:       j.schmitt () pop-frankfurt ! com (Jochen Schmitt)
Date:       1997-08-21 16:23:43
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:42:41 +0200 (METDST), you wrote:

>    KDE is a nice project; they have good hackers working on it and
>    they have done a very good job.  Unfortunately, they selected the
>    non-free Qt toolkit as the foundation for the project, which poses
>    legal problems for those desiring to redistribute the software.

I see, that teh great misunderstanding of the Qt-Licens ist the
question, who have to pay a license fee.

A license fee must pay anyone, who develope software, that is not
free.

Noone must pay a license feee, who redistrubted software.

Regards: Jochen Schmitt

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