From kde-core-devel  Thu Jan 15 13:49:37 2004
From: Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:49:37 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Everaldo keeping kde in lock -- was: K-ARTIST: Icons, scripts
Message-Id: <8765fde2z2.fsf () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
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Ante Wessels writes:

> On Miércoles 14 Enero 2004 11:40, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> Frans Englich writes:
>> > And if neither that works out, we could send a mail to Everaldo,
>> > something like the attached perhaps.
>>
>> Maybe it would be worth mentionning that it is illegal to
>> distribute the icons under the GPL or LGPL without distributing the
>> svg "sources" along.

> Which is true if you take sources from others, not if it is your own
> work.

Where do you get that weird idea from ?  The GPL does not make any
difference between whether it is the original author distributing
anything, or someone else.  Even if so, this would still make it
illegal for anyone but Everaldo to distribute KDE.

Sorry for being so annoying about this, but I do think this is a
pretty significant problem.

cheers
domi