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Hi,

On Thursday 17 March 2005 00:22, Ben Burton wrote:
> It's me writing about Cervisia licensing again.  We still haven't
> heard back from Bernd Gehrmann at this stage, which means there's not
> really much that we can do. =20

I know that Bernd was about to change his job some months ago, but I can=20
try to conact him on the mail addresses I know of.

> AFAICT he hasn't been around for a few=20
> years now; does anyone know of a way that we might be able to contact
> him?=20

I met him ~1.5 years ago personally and we exchanged some personal mails=20
during the last year as well, so as I said I will try to contact him.

> Given that the QPL is GPL-incompatible, this raises issues for GPLed
> programs that wish to use this kpart.  I believe this at least
> includes quanta and kdevelop (unless I'm mistaken).

I don't think that using a GPL incompatible KPart in a GPL application=20
is a problem. It may be at the corner case, but this is more like=20
writing a GPL frontend to a non-GPL application. Also KParts are=20
usually not a hard requirement, so embedding application are working=20
fine without them as well.
 Using the Cervisia DCOP services which requires inclusion and link=20
against it might be  real problem though, but as far as I know both=20
Quanta and KDevelop can be compiled without the CVS part that requires=20
the Cervisia DCOP services. Quanta can be for sure. ;-)

> Though IMHO (i) would be preferable, since (ii) involves many more
> people and still raises issues for any other GPLed code that kdevelop
> and/or quanta might be linked with.

We cannot change the license for the whole Quanta due to its nature=20
(some developers left the project and went commercial...), but it IS=20
possible to change the part of the code that uses the Cervisia part and=20
DCOP services. The first was written by a developer who is no longer=20
active, but I'm sure reachable and cooperative, and myself, the part=20
using the DCOP services was entirely written by myself. I'm not sure if=20
it's enough to change the license only for these parts of the code=20
though.

Andras


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Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.sourceforge.net
K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org

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