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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: KDE2 license policy
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-08-03 23:57:32
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They won't let you release it...

Patrick O Neil wrote:
> 
> Thank you for the nice clarification.  I am SLOWLY teaching myself
> programming
> but unless someone else (easily) beats me to the punch, I will have to look
> into porting a copy of gimp to use qt instead of gtk, giving it a nice
> kde interface that will fit in with whatever kde theme I go with...if for no
> other reason than because I would use it myself, it would be part of a
> learning experience (and likely a complex one at that), and because I can.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan E.
> To: KDE general mailing list
> Sent: 8/3/00 4:56 PM
> Subject: RE: KDE2 license policy
> 
> >
> > 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:
> [---]
> 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.
> [---]
> [snip!]
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