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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Using the KOffice API's in new projects
From:       David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2003-05-28 20:00:43
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On Wednesday 28 May 2003 19:59, Jeff McLean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is my first post to this mailing list so hello to all.
> 
> I'm starting to develop a new application using the KDE and Qt libraries.  It 
> is something of a drawing application like Karbon14, but for another purpose, 
> and it would be GPL, of course.  I think that I could make heavy use of the 
> KOffice API, but I'm not sure if this is a good idea for several reasons:
>         1) The developer APIs (the includes) are not installed on machines 
> just 
> because KOffice is installed.  Is it possible to install the includes so that 
> I could use the APIs the same way I'd use the KDE APIs?

kostore, kofficecore, kofficeui and a few others (kformula, kwmf etc.)
are installed. Which libs are you talking about?

>         2)  Using the KOffice APIs would make my project a KOffice thing, I 
> guess, is 
> that allowed? or do you need permission or something???

Nope, all the libs are LGPL, you can use them to base your application
upon, no problem there ("need permission"... did you mean this the
other way round?)

>         3) I wouldn't want to make users have to install the KOffice includes 
> just so that they can compile my application.

You can't have it all - if your app is a koffice component, they'll need
koffice-devel...

-- 
David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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