From kde-core-devel  Thu Jan 29 08:28:59 2004
From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?q?K=F6bele?= <martin () mkoebele ! de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:28:59 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Apollon in kdeextragear
Message-Id: <200401281610.41292.martin () mkoebele ! de>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=107536517129676

Hi,

some people actually suggested to post it here. I hope the admins allow me to 
post here for the duration of this thread. Thanks in advance.

I'm maintainer of the project Apollon, a KDE-giFT filesharing client.

Since Apollon is a KDE-application and KDE has a pretty reliable cvs-system, 
we would be very happy, if you guys would allow apollon to be part of 
kdeextragear.

In fall 2003 was already a discussion about that. I would like to re-enter in 
that discussion, because the objections weren't really clear. 

My points are:

- Apollon won't be a 'threat' for KDE. Only the client itself would be in the
cvs, not the actual p2p-daemon itself. Some were concerned about that.

- Apollon is not an "illegal" software. And KDE won't be in a "complicity".

- Even the authors of apollon are save and can't be sued. Because they are not 
complices - the authors know nothing about that what the users do with it. 

- a dutch judge came to the result, that kazaa is not illegal. His conviction 
is of international importance.
http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID2785652_REF1,00.html 
(sorry, german webpage only)

- it's not the software which up- and downloads potentially copyrighted 
material, it's the user.

Thanks for thinking about and considering it!

We would be more than happy to be part of kdeextragear!

Martin