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List:       kde-policies
Subject:    Re: Apollon soon in kde-extragear
From:       "Petter E. Stokke" <gibreel () project23 ! no>
Date:       2004-02-12 21:25:48
Message-ID: 200402122225.48939.gibreel () project23 ! no
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On Thursday 12 February 2004 21:17, Andreas Pour wrote:
> But again, I ask, where do we draw the line?  Did KDE stop distributing
> Konqueror and KHTML when Eolas was pursuing its patent lawsuit a/g MS? 
> Can anybody stop KDE from shipping any software or technology by
> threatening a frivolous lawsuit?

This is a crucial point. I do wish the KDE project as a whole would 
establish a policy on this issue, because one can be sued over very nearly 
everything, and trying to second-guess the patent enforcers/music 
industry/crazy people from Utah like we've been doing throughout this 
discussion isn't going to do us much good in the long run - considerably 
more harm than good, in fact, I should imagine.

But that's a discussion more appropriate to kde-policies than core-devel, 
which really has better things to talk about, so I'll take the liberty of 
cc'ing over there, and see if the issue is interesting enough to spark a 
debate there.

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