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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Katabase
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn-gordon () home ! com>
Date:       2001-09-24 16:20:04
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Oh come on Thomas.  I've talked about all this stuff repeatedly and usually 
at the request of others for me to clarify it.  We still want to have a 
free (as in cost) light version of Rekall, but neither one has anything to 
do with KOffice as they are Qt based applications.  It's just going to take 
us a while to finish the full version and then partition out the lite version.

We've been talking about this license for months and months, and it's the 
license that has been in Rekall since the beginning I believe.  I try to 
have concise emails and not regurgitate every piece of information every 
time I am asked about some peripheral topic.  It's not a matter of 
spreading disinformation or self promotion, but simply stating information 
that someone may not be aware of.  I didn't promote Rekall at all in my 
first response to the topic.

I got reamed by RMS a few months ago and in the process he also proceeded 
to say crap about the KDE project in general and because of that and his 
attitude I've pretty much sworn off the GPL now.  It's really ridiculous 
that as programmers we are all forced to be lawyers perpetually and we talk 
about licenses almost as much as we talk about code.

At 09:07 AM 9/24/2001, you wrote:
>Shawn, your product Rekall is not for users of KOffice until they buy it from
>you, this means that the original poster is not helped at all with your 
>statement.
>
>To state my meaning with this email; please don't abuse the KOffice list for
>advertising of your products, this only leads to confuse users and developers.
>
>I really dislike the way you don't answer the licencing questions until they
>are asked very specifically, this only adds to the confusion of our users, and
>will not really help them into your direction as well. (can you say 
>disinformation?)
>
>Sorry for the harsh words, but I think this is a known concept for a mailing
>list in the Open Source world. You could have known better.
>
>
> > Rekall is going to pretty much do all this and will be available in it's
> > new incarnation in a few weeks.
> >
> > At 11:03 AM 9/23/2001, you wrote:
> > >On September 23, 2001 07:53 am, Richard Bos wrote:
> > >> > I am beginning work on a database front-end. I need to be
> > >cross-platform
> > >> > and GNUe has done some interesting work in python, so it will 
> probably
> > >be
> > >> > a python interface, but it will be just a rendered for XML-defined
> > >> > interfaces. I am interested in integrating this with KOffice...
> > >>
> > >> QT-3.0 provides native database support, you may have a look at that as
> > >> well.
> > >I was planning on using another database access core that I will 
> develop to
> > >allow special control over the formatting of new data types and the use of
> > >XML, but I could easily add support to QT/KDE database libraries from
> > >there.
> > >--
> > >Richard Garand
> > >krogoth2@softhome.net, r.garand@sk.sympatico.ca, 
> richard@krogoth.dyndns.org
> > >(L)ICQ: 12190132
> > >"I don't know about you all, but I'm gonna be partying like it's
> > >999,999,999.
> > >Tonight I'm gonna party like it's time_t 1E9." - seen on slashdot
> >
>
>--
>Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
>The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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