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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Domino 5.x support in KMail
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2001-09-29 15:58:22
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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
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