[kde-doc-english] Re: Commerical KDE applications

[Fabrice Mous]

On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:03, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
[...]
|  > Like http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/introduction.html?
|
|  IMHO the statement given there could be more verbose, currently it says:
|
|    2.5. Is KDE free software?
|
|         Yes, KDE is free software according to the GNU General Public
|         License. All KDE libraries are available under the LGPL making
|         commercial software development for the KDE desktop possible,
|         but all KDE applications are licensed under the GPL.
|
|  While this is correct it is not precise:
|
|  "Commercial software" is not the exact term here, as has been stated
|  in this thread already, it might be better to replace it by
|  "proprietary applications that are not Free Software according to
|   the GNU-GPL."
|
|
|  Perhaps we could write:
|
|
|         Yes, KDE is free software according to the GNU General Public
|         License. All KDE applications are licensed under the GPL.
|         All KDE libraries are available under the LGPL allowing for
|         using them by your own applications - no matter whether they
|         are Free Software according to the GNU-GPL or not.
|
|  or something like that...  :-)


send it to kde-doc-english at kde.org as they seem to be the one who are 
maintaining it

Fab



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