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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Noatun: Licensing, and a new one
From:       Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () zvw ! de>
Date:       2001-01-02 14:08:05
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Am Dienstag,  2. Januar 2001 10:43 schrieb Charles Samuels:

> KDE isn't inventing ayet-another Free software License: I am.

But you want to call it the KDE license. So people will assicate it with KDE. 
If you say it's your license, call it the Samuels license or yafsl (yet 
another free software license) or PING (P-License is not GPL, with P meaning 
nothing).

> > Are you really sure satisfying your own personal taste is worth the major
> > hassle you're going to cause ?
>
> The largest hassle so far is replying to all these negative emails. :)

This shows that KDE people don't want a new license associated with them, and 
that they genreally think that a new license is not neccessary.

> Being that I wrote the bulk of the program,
> I have the right to suggest a change in license, as does everyone else.  If
> everyone agrees, it happens.

You are free to make your own license, of course, no one can stop you from 
creating it, but that you are allowed to do this doesn't automatically mean 
that it's a good idea. Are you a lawyer? Do you really know enough about 
licenses to be aware of the consequences of every word you write into your 
license?

> Although, a lot of people have suggested that calling it the KDE license is
> a Bad Idea, and I'm beginning to agree, just for the hassle, possibly for
> the PR.  Maybe I should have just called it the Noatun License and gotten
> that over with.  It's not too late.

Oh, I already wrote the above, so I won't delete it now...

-- 
First they ignore you. Then they laugh about you.
Then they fight you. And then you win.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
 
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