From kde-licensing  Sat Apr 11 12:36:55 1998
From: Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:36:55 +0000
To: kde-licensing
Subject: Re: [kde] Re: The KDE Free Qt Foundation
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On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Alexander Sanda wrote:

> Perhaps, a special (cheaper) shareware license for private individuals
> (not for companies) could be a solution here.


Please look at:  http://www.kde.org/food/linus.html 

"[...] In my opinion, shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial
software (no sources) with the worst of free software (no finishing touches). 
I simply do not believe in the shareware market at all. [...]"

Yours,
-- martin
P.S.: **Please** only continue this thread on kde-licensing@kde.org!!


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