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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: cleaning up kdesupport for KDE 1(.1).2, KDE 2.0
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-07-12 20:13:40
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, John Corey wrote:

> The GPL's a fine license,

No, it's not.  At best it's ambiguous at worst, it's asinine.

> I don't see why we should banish GPL libs.  After all, kdesupport is
> just support libs, not part of KDE itself.  Commercial developers are
> free to use/not use these.  If it isn't used, sure go ahead and axe
> it.

This doesn't really belong on this mailing list, but because the GPL is so
restrictive, a GPL'd library would be incompatable with portions of
kdebase, and kdelibs; therefor it's not acceptable.

- alex

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