[Kde-extra-gear] Re: P2P file sharing software in KDE's CVS

[Klas Kalass]

For people on extragear ml. who did not follow this discussion either:
It was pointed out that having kmldonkey in the extra gear might be 
problematic from a legal point of view.

Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 19:47 schrieb Scott Wheeler:
> On Saturday 13 September 2003 19:01, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> > On the other hand, it would be rather unpolite to show them the door just
> > when we accepted them in.
>
> I agree that this part is less than ideal.  On the other hand I didn't see
> a discussion at all about it going into CVS (not implying that one didn't
> happen; it just didn't happen on any of the lists that I'm on), so there
> was no chance for me to object at that time.
I am very sorry that I am so late, but I was not aware of this discussion. 
Please, if anything regarding the extragear is discussed, either cc: the 
extragear mailing list or at least me directly.

The process of importing into CVS for extragear applications does not involve 
any public discussions, since the idea of the extra gear was to not impose 
any restrictions that need discussion, please read the extragear homepage for 
details on the requirements.

I will take legal stuff into considerations in future. If there is a general 
interest in public discussions I can post requests for inclusion to the extra 
gear list and let the list decide.

Regarding kmldonkey: If there is still someone feeling that its exitance in 
KDE should be discussed, please CC the authors so they can give statements.

Regards,
  Klas

>
> Specifically the issue came up now just as someone would like to import
> more of this type of software (this one I believe has an actual
> implementation of the protocols and isn't a frontend for something else).
>
> -Scott
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