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Subject:    RE: KDE2 license policy
From:       "Evan E." <evan () onepaper ! com>
Date:       2000-08-03 22:56:44
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> You don't seem to understand - they will not allow the port period.

From the Gimp Site:
[---]
What`s this site about?
 Well, The Gimp is an image manipulation program, written by Peter Mattis
and Spencer Kimball, and released under the GNU General Public License
(GPL). It is a program for UNIX and X. To learn more about this program,
just read on on this page
[---]

From the GPL:
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10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs
whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for
permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software
Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make
exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals of
preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of
promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
[---]

From KDE.org:
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All KDE sources are open to everyone and may be distributed and modified by
anyone subject to the well known GNU licenses.
[---]

Thus, the following from the GPL applies (attn to 2):
[---]
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code
as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and
disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this
License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of
the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you
may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it,
thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such
modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you
also meet all of these conditions:

a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that
you changed the files and the date of any change.

b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or
in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be
licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of
this License.

c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run,
you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most
ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate
copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying
that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program
under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not
normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not
required to print an announcement.)
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    So, technically, you can alter all of Gnome to Knome, WITHOUT their
approval.  BUT!!!!

    Open Source and Free Software (two different overlapping groups) both
operate under the goodwill of developers.  It's the coders who put in lots
of time, effort, and sometimes even money to develop that software.  Their
wishes may not be legally significant under the above points, but their
goodwill is what created the massive bulk of Linux/BSD/GNU/Public Domain
Software -- and both KDE and Gnome.

    Play nice with people, and they'll keep doing their best.  If they feel
"screwed over", then the code stops... on both sides (because for all the
flames, I think the *developers* on both sides respect each other).

--
Evan

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