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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re:  ANN: Java and C bindings regenerated for KDE 3.1
From:       "Roberto H. Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-11-29 13:41:56
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On Fri, Nov 29 2002 at 02:04:29am +0000, Richard Dale wrote:
> > Well, the "Lesser" one is even fuller of propaganda and political garbage.
> > But yes, if it makes it any simpler, go ahread, just dont put the "any
> > later version" language, or you are a hostage of the FSF.
> No I disagree with this - all of KDE should have the same sort of licenses 
> whether GPL or LGPL- if it's good enough for kdelibs, it's good enough for 
> kdebindings. You're saying 'go ahead', at the same time dictating what seem 
> to me to be arbitrary restrictions. If you check out the qtc code you'll find 
> that out of 72000 LOC there is only 300 LOC that you have written (that would 
> be only useful in a test harness, it isn't called from the qtobjc or qtsharp 
> code). I have been working on the KDE C bindings in the last week, you last 
> worked on C bindings five years ago. I am the primary maintainer, and will 
> remove your code if you are unhappy with the standard LGPL license. But of 
> course I'm entirely happy to ensure that you get due credit for getting my 
> work on the bindings bootstrapped via *ideas*, not code.

Ok, Richard, I didn't say that to make you mad, you know :-)
I offered to give you the copyright, after all.
Do whatever you need to do, you have my permission to do anything.

> 
> -- Richard
>  
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