Plugin Arch. for KDevelope 2.0

[Sandy Meier]

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Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2001 21:26 schrieb Ralf Nolden:
> On Sunday, 29. July 2001 15:31, you wrote:
> > Is there any documentation yet on how the plugins for KDevelop 2.0 will
> > work?
> >
> > I'm interested in developing a plugin for version control using Perforce.
>
> Cool. I remember some commercial users at expos asking for perforce. Please
> get the sources from the KDE CVS in HEAD under the module kdevelop. There
> is documentation for the plugins AFAIK, but looking at a small plugin like
> the astyle one should help you as well.
>
> Please come back if you have any questions so we can help you. Are you
> planning to do this plugin as GPL

Ok, good topic. I think we should discuss and decide now wether we allow 
commercial plugins,closed source, open source or freeware plugins for 
KDevelop 3.0.  I think with more and more third parties will develop plugins 
this issue will be raised sometimes and we should have an answer.
I would like to have following agreement:

It is allowed to develop commercial or freeware software (GPL,BSD..) but the 
plugin must be available with sourcecode. (maybe open source compatible?) 
There are many reason for this. 
1) Personaly I don't want a situation where Gideon is running on FreeBSD on 
Alpha (this should be possible) but the plugin is only available on 
Linux/i386. 
2) If there is a bug the user can fix it and don't need to wait for a new 
release
3) The libraries will sometimes not binary compatible (you know Linux is 
sometime really uncool on this issue), with sourcecode you can make an 
recompile and use it with new Gideon version.

Ok, this are my thoughts about plugin licensing. Would do you think? 

Ciao!
Sandy

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