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List:       kde-policies
Subject:    Re: P2P file sharing software in KDE's CVS
From:       Ralf Nolden <nolden () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-09-13 16:02:10
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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 KDE
> 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 - the 
KDE e.V. is the only legal entity that could be sued or the individual 
authors directly. As the KDE e.V. is not responsible for the code rather than 
being a support organization, who should be sued if not the individual 
developers ? (and in that case it's *much* more likely that companies like 
Adobe for instance who already did that with killustrator, approach the 
companies that make their money with KDE software, i.e. the distributors, 
though that doesn't mean we shouldn't be acting responsible enough to not 
cause the distributors any trouble).

Ralf
>
> Cheers,
> Charles

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