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[Josef Spillner]

Am Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2005 22:47 schrieb Andras Mantia:
> On Thursday 03 February 2005 22:50, Josef Spillner wrote:
> > Does it count that most of that code was implemented already in
> > another module?
>
> In which module??

I was referring to kdewebdev - as opposed to kdelibs where it should go to.
The question was aimed at whether this is covered by the feature freeze or 
not. I know there's kde-policies but... ;)

> > http://www.kde.org/info/requirements/3.3.php lists kdepim as of now,
> > kdewebdev could be added there.
>
> As I understood, the real problem is the licensing of the library.

In the theoretical case of the relicensing not happening until KDE 4.0, would 
a fall-back to built-in gpg make sense (in the respective KDE signature 
handling class)? After all gpgme is not very old yet, I thought this was how 
it was handled before.
I admit I haven't looked much at the code in kdepim yet but in my personal POV 
such functionality should be part of the desktop environment. The usage of 
encryption and signatures will likely increase over the next years.

> The problem with the current addition would be that we couldn't really
> change according to your proposal, so it would basicly remain as I
> wrote now. If that's OK, fine, I will maintain it for the 3.4.x
> releases and we can improve as you proposed for 4.0.

That'd be a nice outcome.

Josef