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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Gecko
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-06 11:15:55
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"Dirk A . Mueller" wrote:
> 
> On Don, 06 Apr 2000, Frédéric LEUBA wrote:
> 
> > I think you all know about Gecko.
> > My question is simple: Is it planned to use Gecko engine into Kde and more specially Konquetor ?
> 
> It's not possible. from what I know Gecko is licensed under the NPL which
> is incompatible with every other license, including LGPL, GPL, QPL, Artistic
> etc.
> 

Oh, yeah - I completely forgot about this!

> If they indeed use a acceptable license, just for the coolness a
> gecko-embedding part would be great, yes. but that's optional and not very
> high on my priority list.
> 
> They're hypeing something that isn't really open source.
> 
> Dirk

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