Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:42:17 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing |
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Ick! I guess I sticking with Gimp 1.0 on my system. I dont tolerate closed software. Period.
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Martin Konold wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > The non-KDE people have their lawyers call the KDE people's lawyers > > > and the lawyers have lunch together. > > Which will probably happen when KDE commits the first real bigger crime of > > stealing GPL'ed code. The application set to become this is Gimp, where > > there is already a Kimp version, but it seems not to be distributed, so > > there is no major breach of GPL yet. > > Just to keep you informed. The KDE developers are in close conversation > with several core GIMP developers about the port of GIMP to the KDE. It > currently looks like the GIMP people will accept a --use-kde switch within > a _unified_ GIMP source tree which will be handled by the code GIMP > developers. > > These GIMP people think that it is a good idea to prevent a code split > this way. > > Please note: 1.) GIMP <> GNOME > 2.) GIMP people mainly want to provide an excellent program > to their users not spreading FUD. > 3.) Developers seem to be more reasonable than advocates. > 4.) Even RMS acknowledged that linking a GPL'd app with Qt on > at least a SuSE, Delix, Stampede or Slackware 3.5 system > is ok. > 5.) I personally do believe that I am entitled to roll my own > OS whenever I would like to ;-) > > Yours, > -- martin > > // Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // > // Email: konold@kde.org // > RMSisch ist schlimmer als GNUisch (die fanatisch/religioese > Steigerung von GNUisch, daher ist GNUisch "nur" RMSisch-- ;-) > -- Harald Koenig -- > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html >
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