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List:       koffice
Subject:    Rekall: was Re: Kbase
From:       Mike Richardson <mike () quaking ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-10-04 9:15:40
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On Thursday 04 October 2001 9:29 am, Eleknader wrote:

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>
> There is also a commercial database product called Rekall (produced by The
> Kompany), which will be released quite soon, and will be released for free
> (free to be used, not free to be hacked). I'm sure Shawn Gordon from The
> Kompany will be willing to inform you about Rekall.

Since Shawn is probably asleep right now, here's a quick statement (by me, as 
the main Rekall developer). BTW please don't read this as an advert

* Rekall is an "Access-like" database front end
* It is commercial
* It will come with source code
* You _will_ be free to hack the source code (we're not M$oft:) but
* You _will not_ be free to redistribute the source code

We'll be happy to consider incorporating stuff into the code if we think its 
a good idea (OK, we'd benefit, I admit it).

Personally (and this _is_ my personal opinion), I'd be quite happy to for 
user-written patches to be made public, the only issue being the problem of 
someone contacting us and saying "I have a problem, and I haven't changed the 
source code, honest!".

Regards
Mike

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http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk

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