Cervisia again, plus greater problems

Andras Mantia amantia at kdewebdev.org
Thu Mar 17 10:32:22 GMT 2005


> I claim it's not obvious that the use of cervisia is okay then.  On one
> hand, quanta only uses the KPart functions and does not recast as an
> explicit cervisia part, so quanta is using the generic kpart interface.
> On the other hand, quanta is in fact requiring this specific non-GPL
> part, since the plugin that ships with quanta is explicitly configured
> to open libcervisiapart.so.

As I said this is in a configuration file, so Debian may choose to patch
that file so the Cervisia plugin is not configured by default. People
deciding to use it can still configure and use.

Is it a problem to make a patch for Debian?

Andras




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