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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] What's the community up to?
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2004-12-11 18:44:15
Message-ID: 200412111944.17117 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Tuesday 07 December 2004 15:47, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 13:59, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2004 14:05 schrieb Kurt Pfeifle:
> > > On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:36, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > On Monday 06 December 2004 23:25, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > > There is this (old?) idea to make KMail (and maybe even Kontact)
> > > running on Windows. It could really make a big inroad into the
> > > Outlook market, once we had it.
> > >
> > > AFAIK, there were just 2 "smaller" problems left:
> > >  a) one library with an incompatible license woulld need to be
> > >     re-written (was it libmime?) and released under LPGL or
> > > similar b) someone/someorg with a commercial license of Qt would
> > > be required to build Win32 binaries and distribute them.
> >
> > About b):
> > kdepim is GPL not LGPL, therefore you are not allowed to link to
> > the commercial version in the first place. AFAIK the authors tried
> > to change the license (GPL+an exception for commercial QT), but a
> > few developers refused and also not all of them could be reached
> > (all authors even of the smallest peace must agree to a license
> > change).
>
> Hmm... here is what I was told by KMail developers: it is just that
> one library that doesnt comply. (I didnt check for the licenses
> myself in the current kmail/kdepim code, though).
>
> Could someone who knows better than me please firmly reject or
> confirm this?

Kurt remembers (almost) correctly. The library is called mimelib (not 
libmime). As Daniel already wrote pretty much everything else is 
already either LGPL or GPL+Qt exception. Not a single developer 
objected against the license change (although some had to be 
convinced).

Regards,
Ingo

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