KDE Policies to commercial apps/distributions

[Neil Stevens]

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On Tuesday November 26, 2002 03:35, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> '--':
> --------
>  * KDE they have is *old* (1 year old?  I even don't remember KDE 2.2.x
> release exactly)
>  * screenshots use non-AA text  (and AA is supported in KDE 2.2)
>  * they use own icons (it's up to them, of course, which icons to use),
> but those icons ar eincredibly ugly, and this already affects KDE
> itself. * Konqueror is replaced with some own file manager (delivered
> from Corel Linux 1.0?), functionality of that file manager is
> questionable to me. * Mozilla is used instead of Konqueror (well, it's
> up to them, BUT:  do we care about this or not?  I care.).
> I just  wonder if it's posisble to execute Konq in Xandros at all, or
> they disabled its built?
>
> And Lindows, while is slightly better with icons (which are not so ugly
> as in Xandros, and partially from KDE3 release), is still falls far away
> from "KDE Standard".

KDE has no moral standing to complain about others changing KDE's icons and 
look, when KDE 3.1 itself radically changes the default look.  If keeping 
the same look were so important, highcolor icons wouldn't have been tossed 
into kdeartwork, and the efficient highcolor widgets woudln't have been 
replaced by a pixmap machine.

The legal standing to stop it from happening would require restrictive 
licenses that are incompatible with current KDE policy.  Of course, the 
published policy pre-dates any open decision making, so it might not have 
much legitimacy.  A new anti-freedom policy could be written if most 
contributors wanted it, but I think most would agree that it would be 
suicide.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
Delenda est Carthago
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