KDE Policies to commercial apps/distributions

[Waldo Bastian]

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 12:35, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> Note:  I am not saying that we should prohibit usage of KDE in commercial
> distros, which charge somewhat $99-$129 per set.
> But I think we should have guidelines what is allowed , and what is
> "no-no". Comparing pluses and minuses above, I have impression that project
> like this more hurts KDE, and doesn't help at all.

KDE being open source means that we have very little control over how others 
can use KDE (Assuming they abide by the license) The only control we could 
possibly have is through the KDE trademark but as you might have noticed, 
Xandros, Corel and Lindows hardly ever refer to KDE so its not that 
forbidding them to use the KDE trademark would make any difference.

So I don't think that there is much we could do if we would want to.

Personally I have no objection to these companies, I think it's nice to see 
how these companies use the freedom that they have with KDE. I also think it 
helps to promote the qt/KDE API in general somewhat.

Cheers,
Waldo