From kde-policies Sat Sep 13 16:54:49 2003 From: Charles de Miramon Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:54:49 +0000 To: kde-policies Subject: Re: P2P file sharing software in KDE's CVS X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-policies&m=106347208904733 Le Samedi 13 Septembre 2003 18:02, Ralf Nolden a écrit : > 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). > Well, they could sue the physical owner of the main CVS server (if I remember right a German University) or target a specific individual like the release manager. Another legal solution, would be to convince the judge that KDE ev is, de facto, controlling the KDE project, even if, de iure, it says the contrary, a mechanism commonly used in French law to sue people that have taken a legal status just to escape taxes or liabilities. The chance that KDE ev get condamned, at least in European law, is extremely slim. KDE ev will not make any profit out of KMLDonkey and it will be very farfetched to prove that by providing the source of KMLDonkey, KDE is actively promoting piracy and breaking public order. Your point on distributions is a valid one. If we have "grey" software in KDExtragear we can make life more difficult for KDE packagers. For Mandrake, MLDonkey packages are in the Penguin Liberation Front repository a unofficial repository, I guess logically KMLDonkey should go there and not in the official package of KDExtragear. Taking KMLDonkey out of the CVS won't be a tragedy for the program. Their user base is smart and computer wise enough to google to the new downloading location. On the other hand, it would be rather unpolite to show them the door just when we accepted them in. Cheers, Charles -- cmiramon@kde-france.org http://www.kde-france.org _______________________________________________ Kde-policies mailing list Kde-policies@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-policies