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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Noatun: Licensing, and a new one
From:       Cullmann Christoph <crossfire () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2001-01-02 13:57:20
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A little proposal:
Why you dont make a dual license model for Noatun ?
You could license it under the GPL AND under a license you invent !
Then everybody would be happy and no problems appears.
It's like Qt-Free Edition, it has 2 license-models, too.

cu
C. Cullmann

Am Dienstag,  2. Januar 2001 14:52 schrieb Christian A Strømmen 
[Number1/NumeroUno]:
> On Tuesday 02 January 2001 09:39, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > Noatun has been under the artistic license for quite a while (it
> > originally was under the GPL).  The artistic license is slightly
> > problematic in that it isn't GPL-compatible, making it difficult for me
> > to swipe XMMS code ;)
> >
> > So, I present to you the KDE License.  I name it the KDE license because
> > I hope that more KDE applications adopt it.  I also forward this to
> > kde-devel as a hint for KAboutData::License_KDE to be added to that enum
> > :)
> >
> > First, I'm changing the license of libnoatun to this license, so I need
> > permission from Neil Stevens, Stefan Westerfeld, Malte Starostik, and
> > Nikolas Zimmermann.  All of these have commited to libnoatun
> > (kdemultimedia/noatun/noatun/library).  Basically, send me an email
> > saying "I allow Noatun to switch to The KDE License," since I'm not
> > waiting in line to be sued.
> >
> > The license is pasted below.  It's based off the zlib license, it's GPL
> > compatible, just slightly more restrictive than the X-license (e.g.,
> > pretty darn free-as-in-speech), and very similar to the BSD license.
>
> This really give me the chills... Please don't do this...
>
> Do you really feel that the fact that you personally "don't like" the gpl,
> artistic or any other license (as it seems) is enough for creating another
> license, calling it with the kde name, breaking the fact that most kde
> programs are under gpl and possibly creating as much trouble as the QPL
> did?...
>
> A new license will only hurt KDE, this is something I believe so strongly
> that I will seriously not rest untill this thing at least has been renamed
> to something that doesn't have KDE in it's name..

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