FLA

[Marc Mutz]

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On Thursday 06 February 2003 20:31, Richard Moore wrote:
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> One question - why?
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The question as to why has already been answered in this thread. Please=20
read it, in addition to the FLA, if you want to give constructive=20
feedback. The bottomline: It's good for KDE and for it's developers.

If the question is instead "why _now_", the answer to that is twofold:

1. The FLA has just been released to the public. It's the first document=20
of it's scope that works in the copyright as well as the droit d'auteur=20
model.
2. We are currently trying to include the Qt exception in (esp.) the=20
libkdenetwork licenses, so that KOrganizer, for which there exists a=20
working Qt/E port, can link to it. And due to the plethora of=20
contributors, it's a nice little PITA.

> I have no plans to release the copyright of any
> of my own code, have other people asked to do this?
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Discussions here start not only if _you_ want something, you know ;-)

I don't care if an app developer signs a FLA-variant with KDE e.V., b/c=20
it's her risk and her risk alone if her license get's violated by a=20
third party. I care about what happens to KDE's essential frameworks=20
and applications, to which tens or hundreds of different people have=20
contributed and a few dozens of them have valid copyright claims on the=20
current source.

Marc

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