Plugin Arch. for KDevelope 2.0

[Sandy Meier]

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Am Montag, 30. Juli 2001 11:53 schrieben Sie:


>
> The reason I vote for even allowing closed source stuff is that if we want
> to enforce free licensing it will be very easy to do but on the other hand
> that means that for example a company like Siemens who wants to add an
> inhouse-plugin would be required to publish it.
No, even if you use GPL your are not forced to publish the sourcecode of your 
inhouse products. Only if you distribute it.

> If someone wants to make money with a plugin for gideon, well, go ahead I'd
> say. 
Yes, no problem. Open Source doesn't mean you can't make money. Open source 
doesn't mean freeware in the sense of free beer. 

>That would also affect the
> development of closed source/need-to-pay-for applications/plugins for the
> KDE desktop because an enforcement of opensource kdevelop plugins to the
> producers of software implicitely would give them the message that they can
> only deal with KDE by means of opensource/free software. That would be the
> wrong message I'd say.
>
> Sandy, I see the good meaning of your proposal, but the thing is that we're
> providing our stuff the way we want, what everyone else wants to do should
> be their freedom. (free in the sense of free to choose, not free beer :))
Ok, I understand your reasons and I can agree with it, but then we must 
change the KDevelop license.:-( IMO it is not possible to write other plugins 
then GPL(maybe BSD) based at the moment. You need to include the headers 
(lib,sourceinfo,keditor,compiler options... ) to write C++ plugins and these 
headers contain sometimes implementation and are GPL. For all this we need a 
special agreement. 

Ciao!
Sandy

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