From kmail-devel Sat Sep 29 15:58:22 2001 From: Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:58:22 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Re: Domino 5.x support in KMail X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=100177916616698 On Saturday 29 September 2001 17:45, Jason Stephenson wrote: > > Well, that's not entirely true. You can link it with GPL code, even hack a > local copy of KMail up and include the Domino API calls in it. As long as > the code never leaves your machine, you're fine. You are not required to > distribute all changes that you make to GPL code, only that if you do, then > everything has to be under the GPL. You can hack GPL code and mix and match > it with whatever source code and libraries are at your disposal so long as > you keep the changes to yourself. Right, but I think we want to distribute it. > It's all pretty murky, 'cause no one really knows the legal status of > dynamically linked code versus statically linked. I don't think most > lawyers or judges even know there is a difference from a technical > viewpoint. Well also GNOME is allowed to do that according to the Free Software Fondation and KDE isn't, but that is another issue... Anyway, if it's a different process which a kioslave is, there is definitely no problem. But people still have to fetch the library from Lotus and compile the kioslave theirselves. Regards, Michael Häckel _______________________________________________ Kmail Developers mailing list Kmail@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail