Updated policy

[Olaf Jan Schmidt]

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Hi!

After getting constructive feedback from Rob, Gerhard and Harri, I changed 
the wording of my suggested policy to deal with the mentioned problems.

This is my new suggestion:

"KDE does not host software which promotes illegal activities or which 
primary purpose is illegal in the countries where the main KDE servers 
(web servers, FTP server, CVS server, mailing lists) are located. KDE 
also does not promote illegal activities on its website, in the 
documentation and in the default settings.

If there is disagreement about whether an application complies with this
policy or about the legal status of certain usecases, KDE will use the
safe solution and not host the application unless the application
developers convincingly show that they have a correct understanding of the 
legal situation and that the project has a history of clearly respecting 
the law.

Compliance with this policy does not mean that a project must be hosted by 
KDE. It is only a guideline for the discussion about whether KDE is 
interested in hosting a project."


I am aware that Apollon does not fit in with this policy for several 
reasons, although I originally was in favour of allowing Apollon into 
KEG. 

The points currently excluding Apollon are:
* The website shows screenshots which promote unauthorized copying.
* The authors made uninformed statements about the legal situation in 
Germany to the kde-core-devel list.

If you believe that the policy should be changed to allow Apollon to be 
hosted by KDE, then please offer good arguments on why these requirements 
mentioned in the suggested policy are not necessary for the protection of 
KDE against reasonable lawsuits.

Olaf.

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project
KDEAP co-maintainer, maintainer of http://accessibility.kde.org

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