Copyrights

[Christoph Cullmann]

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On Friday 18 October 2002 20:09, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Friday October 18, 2002 10:59, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > On Friday 18 October 2002 19:53, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > It's come to my attention that the code on kde-www, kate.kde.org,
> > > www/testing, and everything derived else derived from Sebastian Faubel
> > > is of uncertain copyright and license status.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a license to that code and image?
> >
> > He gave me his allow to use it there (kate.kde.org, www/testing), beside
> > your derivered stuff, but you seems simply not to be able to ask anybody
> > for the ok. We would have no problem at all, if you could be a bit more
> > communicative with the author. (fine, he wasn't on kde-www, but personal
> > mail and all would have been solved, but you still hasn't mailed him
> > once, or ?)
>
> So the license is limited just to you, or just to those urls?  Does the
> license allow for modifications?
>
> If we're going to seriously consider asking all KDE sites to use this code,
> these are vital questions to answer.
Which you simply could ask the author, but you still don'T be able, are you ?
Sebastian and I was in close contact about what I did to his code, but where 
is the problem that he got problems with you because you modified his code 
without asking and coming up with it as an alternative to his own design 
without at least one contact ? Wouldn't you mad if I fork your program, 
modifiy it and come up to all others with it to trash your original program 
out of kde without one single personal email ?

Therefor this mail is now send to Sebastian, too (which you simply can't do as 
it seems).
Then we get just much faster what his license thoughts are and don't fall 
again in his back. Has he one time said he wants to disallow us the use of 
his code ? He only was dissapointed that he wasn't contacted and doesn't want 
to work on something if nobody really respects him, which means no revoking 
of any license or sueing.

Let simply Sebastian come up with his answer.

cu
Christoph 


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Christoph Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann at kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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