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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:20:04AM -0700, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> Oh come on Thomas.  I've talked about all this stuff repeatedly and usual=
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> at the request of others for me to clarify it.  We still want to have a=
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> free (as in cost) light version of Rekall, but neither one has anything t=
o=20
> do with KOffice as they are Qt based applications.  It's just going to ta=
ke=20
> us a while to finish the full version and then partition out the lite=20
> version.
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> We've been talking about this license for months and months, and it's the=
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> license that has been in Rekall since the beginning I believe.  I try to=
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> have concise emails and not regurgitate every piece of information every=
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> time I am asked about some peripheral topic.  It's not a matter of=20
> spreading disinformation or self promotion, but simply stating informatio=
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> that someone may not be aware of.  I didn't promote Rekall at all in my=
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> first response to the topic.

All of these points are irrelevant to my statement below. Your answer (even
further below) pointed a developer with a clear interest of creating an=20
application for KDE in the direction of Katabase.
For a developer the licence is very important, I think you know that. Knowi=
ng
your thoughts about any Open Source licence I know how to handle your state=
ment,
But new users do not.
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> I got reamed by RMS a few months ago and in the process he also proceeded=
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> to say crap about the KDE project in general and because of that and his=
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> attitude I've pretty much sworn off the GPL now.  It's really ridiculous=
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> that as programmers we are all forced to be lawyers perpetually and we ta=
lk=20
> about licenses almost as much as we talk about code.

I have no opinion on RMS. The GPL is one OpenSource licence and it protects=
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my rights to use and distribute the software I care about. This is importan=
t=20
to me.=20
The fact that I use a product from someone does not mean I like what that
person does/says...


> At 09:07 AM 9/24/2001, you wrote:
> >Shawn, your product Rekall is not for users of KOffice until they buy it=
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> >from
> >you, this means that the original poster is not helped at all with your=
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> >statement.
> >
> >To state my meaning with this email; please don't abuse the KOffice list=
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> >for
> >advertising of your products, this only leads to confuse users and=20
> >developers.
> >
> >I really dislike the way you don't answer the licencing questions until=
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> >they
> >are asked very specifically, this only adds to the confusion of our user=
s,=20
> >and
> >will not really help them into your direction as well. (can you say=20
> >disinformation?)
> >
> >Sorry for the harsh words, but I think this is a known concept for a=20
> >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=20
> >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 tha=
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> >as
> >> >> well.
> >> >I was planning on using another database access core that I will=20
> >develop to
> >> >allow special control over the formatting of new data types and the u=
se=20
> >of
> >> >XML, but I could easily add support to QT/KDE database libraries from
> >> >there.

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Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.n=
et
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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