[techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

Patricia Jung trish at trish.de
Thu Aug 3 17:28:53 EST 2000


On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:12:07AM -0400, Fan, Laurel wrote:
> 
> Maybe so.  But another issue is that KDE has incorporated a lot of
> non-KDE-written GPL'd code, without asking the authors if it was ok
> to link their code with Qt.  In essence, forcing their controversial
> interpretation of the GPL on other peoples' "products".
And the GNOME project hast included some of the KDE code, thus, 
the relevant programs obviously are part of a chain reaction.

	Patricia





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