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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: KDE2 license policy
From:       Kevin Forge <forge () myrealbox ! com>
Date:       2000-08-03 21:28:12
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Kimp was a port of Gimp to QT/KDE libs from GTK done by a single
Senior KDE Developer in a single day as part of teaching a class 
on QT/KDE development.  I don't quite remember who it was but he
might have been named Mathias.  He never really intended to release 
Kimp but when the Gimp people started to scream and holler that 
they didn't want this.  That was enough.

Sure.  Technically you could just go ahead and release it anyway 
but that would make friends angry.  

Since it was never released for all practical purposes the Kimp
-> dose not exist <-.  On the other hand kImageShope dose much 
of what the Gimp dose and accepts Gimp plugging.  Not being much 
of an artist myself I haven't tried it lately so I don't know what 
stage of incompleteness it's at now.

Patrick O Neil wrote:
> 
> Where could one find "Kimp"?  I would certainly be interested in a
> qt frontend to gimp instead of what it has.  I do not see why this
> should be any problem in any case.  As far as I understand, opensource
> doesn't object to this.  How about calling it Qtimp?
> 
> Why would altering opensource/gnu software, which IS OK, be
> disrespectful?  Why isn't the repackaging of linux and all the
> packages that go with it, with even distro-specific alterations,
> not disrespectful?  Give credit where it is due for the sake
> of respect, but provide the altered software (and source).
> 
> Where is this not allowed vis a vis the Gimp, by the way?
> 
> As to the Derek...DO you have a KDE-friendly replacement
> frontend to Gimp?  If so, I WANT IT PLEASE. In any case, if
> the KDE people don't want it, that doesn't mean YOU cannot
> freely release it to the community.  Give credit, etc, for
> the bulk of the code, make your LEGAL and OK changes, and
> release it with source.  No problem.
> 
> I WANT A KDE-FRIENDLY FRONTEND TO GIMP!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Sproul
> To: KDE general mailing list
> Sent: 8/3/00 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: KDE2 license policy
> 
> mosfet wrote:
> >
> > Kevin Sproul wrote:
> > >
> > > Derek Fountain wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In short, I was wondering if I took a GNU tool, say
> > > > something from GNOME, and rewrote parts of it (like the
> > > > interface) so it worked under KDE, would that not be allowed
> > > > into the KDE project?
> > >   --
> > > It's a simple policy called "Respect for other people's code
> [...]
> > >
> > > Besides who wants another screeching and screaming session
> > > like we had over Kimp ( an application which was never
> > > distributed )
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