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On Saturday 13 September 2003 17:46, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> 	I agree with Scott. KMLDonkey is not an illegal program but a program
> which main use is doing illegal stuff. By integrating it in KDExtragear,
> the KDE Project is taking a legal and moral liability that we may wish we
> had not took.
>
> 	My solution would be to keep the actual statu quo but explain to
> KMplayer's contributors that in case of legal attacks on KMLDonkey, the K=
DE
> project will have no solution but to take the code out of CVS and that the
> KDE project will not do any promotion for the software, id est, it is up =
to
> them to promote their program.
>
> 	My guess, is that by adopting a low profile, the KDE project is taking
> little risk. The File Sharing legal mess is certainly going to be settled
> in the next years.

I'd like to remind that the KDE Project per se cannot be sued directly - th=
e=20
KDE e.V. is the only legal entity that could be sued or the individual=20
authors directly. As the KDE e.V. is not responsible for the code rather th=
an=20
being a support organization, who should be sued if not the individual=20
developers ? (and in that case it's *much* more likely that companies like=
=20
Adobe for instance who already did that with killustrator, approach the=20
companies that make their money with KDE software, i.e. the distributors,=20
though that doesn't mean we shouldn't be acting responsible enough to not=20
cause the distributors any trouble).

Ralf
>
> Cheers,
> Charles

=2D-=20
We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs.
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Ralf Nolden
nolden@kde.org

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