[Kroupware] kroupware - kde 3.2 ??

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:04, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 November 2002 10.18, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>
> > - The library also has a commercial licence. That means, if
> > somebody adds something to the code, but is not willing to put the
> > additional code under this licence, the code can't go back to the
> > original version. This would mean that the code had to be forked
> > and the KDE version would most probably not get any fixes from the
> > original version anymore.
> >
> > The problem with maintenance is that the library violates the rule
> > that code in the KDE CVS has to actively be maintained in the KDE
> > CVS. If we can't change the code in KDE CVS without risking that
> > the changes get lost later or prevent other fixes from the original
> > version to go back to the KDE CVS, it might hinder development.
> >
> > These are my concerns. I could live with the commercial licence and
> > the maintenance issue, at least for now, because I trust Kalle to
> > responsibly handle these issues, although I would be more happy, if
> > the lib wouldn't need any exceptional handling. But the problem
> > with non-GPL Qt versions has to be resolved.
>
> As I said, KChart with our KDChart engine has lived with this
> situation for almost two years, without problems. The only changes
> that have been made where one liner get-this-to-compile-on-platform-X
> changes which are not copyrightable anyway.
>
> If somebody wants to make a substantial contribution to either
> KDChart or KDGantt, we would contact this developer and offer him or
> her to buy the rights to the change so that we can continue to have
> identical GPL and commercial versions. I am not too sure that this is
> going to happen, though, as hacking on these is a pretty tough call,
> both have many hundreds (KDChart even thousands) of design and
> implementation hours, it's nothing you can get into on one weekend...

This sounds reasonable.

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>