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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Gimp, Gnome, Gtk, KDE, Qt...
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1998-07-16 15:11:48
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > is also the mater of DnD and Corba which is not widely used now in 
> > KDE but are being implemented ( KOffice is built on Mico ).  
> 
> Gnome uses DnD pretty heavily and all the DnD code appears to be LGPL so
> whichever way it is approached that one can be dealt with. At the moment
> it also uses Mico but is dropping it because it has too many performance
> problems and no security model. The new ORB should interwork with mico and
> will be LGPL I believe if KDE finds Mico has problems.

XDnD is absolutely free. (more free than LGPL)
Please check:
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
John Lindal does offer sample source code which may be used under any
license.

Yours,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
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