[Kmymoney-devel] Re: KDChart

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Saturday 21 May 2011 11:19:32 Marko Käning wrote:

> Hi developers,
> 
> due to Christian I understood that plots are being produced by KDChart
> which is an external package and made by KDAB. Now that I checked it out I
> see that they sell it (http://www.kdab.com/license-prices), which makes me
> wonder what this means for KMM4. Did you guys by a license from them? Or,
> did I just not notice some alternative license model?
> 
> Am confused.
> 
> Anyway, initially I wanted to make contact with them concerning the
> "missing axis line" issue in [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256927]
> but then stopped in surprise of a price list on their site. Also I
> couldn't find any KDChart-related mailing list… :-(

First of all: relax!

There's no problem with the license as KDChart is dual-licensed. See the file 
LICENSE.GPL which you also find in our copy of the code. 

Why do we have our copy of the lib? Well, in the past we used the KDE 
repository version, but that did not get shipped as separate package and you 
had to install all of KOffice to get it just so that you could compile 
KMyMoney. Also, at one point, the KDChart devs changed something which broke 
our code and that just a few days before a release.

So we ended up to have our own copy of the code, which we gently touch 
whereever necessary to make it compile in our environment. But we agreed on 
the fact that we don't do bugfixes on it. AFAIR, the only change needed was in 
the build stuff but not the actual source. SVN has more information on that. 
Please dig the logs for yourself.

We report bugs to the upstream project, and Alvaro was taking care of this in 
the past. I am not sure if he already mentioned this one or not to them. 
Maybe, he can comment here.

Every now and then, we sync with the KOffice repo part. Not sure, when we have 
done that last and if it makes sense to repeat it. If you want to check it 
out, please feel free to do so. Maybe, the bug that annoys you is already 
fixed.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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