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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ALWAYS FREE?
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-09-13 12:29:32
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > > It's an attitude problem. Trying to impose a copyright on a CORBA
> > > interface and at the same time complaining about issues with the
> > > trash icon or with the GIF patent is hypocritical.
> > 
> > You never link to the IDL file, so where's the problem?
> 
> That's exactly my point: Since the idl file only represents
> an interface, there is no point in trying to impose a
> copyright on it. Except if you want to spread FUD about
> the conditions under which the interface can be used.

Well, there is a copyright on it. That's automatic.

Everything I write is copyrighted by me, and everything you write is
copyrighted by you.
The point of making it LGPL is that if someone modifies it, he has to
release it under the LGPL too.

The same thing happens with header files, which also define an interface,
doesn't it?

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