From kde-core-devel  Mon Oct 26 22:40:38 2009
From: Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:40:38 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kdewebkit moved to kdereview
Message-Id: <FAF4C728-8DCF-4E0E-A85B-672522961E4C () meyerhome ! net>
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> A Dilluns, 26 d'octubre de 2009, Chani va escriure:
>>>>> I only want to remind you the fiasco (Can't print in okular.  
>>>>> can't do
>>>>> poster
>>>>> printing. why i can't print only odd pages?) of the killing of
>>>>> KDEPrint by forcing QPrinter on us that never got fixed and we are
>>>>> still suffering the consequences by asking us to rewrite what we
>>>>> already had working.
>>>>
>>>> This is completely different. It's unfortunate but if Nokia don't  
>>>> fix
>>>> fast enough or don't bring features fast enough, they have an open
>>>> repository where you can add what you would have done in KDEPrint.
>>>
>>> No i can't my religion doesn't allow me to develop for  
>>> corporations for
>>> free.
>>
>> assuming you're writing any code for kde, you're already writing  
>> code for
>> canonical, novell, etc. for free.
>
> Not it's not the same writing Free Software than can be used by  
> anyone than
> writing software that goes into Qt that requires you to give a  
> license to do
> whatever Nokia wants with it. I though everyone could see the  
> difference.
>
> Albert

That might be the case for QPrinter, but not the case for QtWebKit.  
QtWebKit is hosted in the WebKit svn repository and patches go there,  
Qt simply takes snapshots to go in Qt releases and the QtWebKit code  
can be found in the 3rd party directory of Qt.  In fact if you try to  
submit a patch to QtWebKit through Qt you will probably be asked to  
use bugs.webkit.org.

-Benjamin Meyer