[kde-guidelines] Licenses

[zander at kde.org]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 04:03:18PM +0000, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2004 10:56, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > My first thought on this reflects a discussion (for a book) I had some
> > time ago; the concern here is that code-snippets should be libarally
> > licensed; people should be completely free to copy code from the guide,
> > and do anything with that code. This in contrast to the texts themselves.
> >
> > If it is not practical to change the licensing mid-page, I suggest to
> > publish source-code twice. One time in the book; and one time as seperate
> > files which will be downloadable (or shipped on a CD).  The copyright
> > holder of that code should then allow us to distribute his code in 2
> > licenses, one is the one of the paragraph it appears in, the other is the
> > very-liberal use-wherever-you want license.
> 
> But the guidelines shouldn't contain large code snippets, AFAICT, because:
> 
> * The guidelines are not about technical issues. Understanding 
> programming/technical aspects should be handled elsewhere. 
> 
> * People shouldn't need it.

While searching for another reference; I see you brought this up
already... :(

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=109349440410010&w=2

Aarons answer was not much different from mine, was it?
-- 
Thomas Zander
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