On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:03, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: [...] | > Like http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/introduction.html? | | IMHO the statement given there could be more verbose, currently it says: | | 2.5. Is KDE free software? | | Yes, KDE is free software according to the GNU General Public | License. All KDE libraries are available under the LGPL making | commercial software development for the KDE desktop possible, | but all KDE applications are licensed under the GPL. | | While this is correct it is not precise: | | "Commercial software" is not the exact term here, as has been stated | in this thread already, it might be better to replace it by | "proprietary applications that are not Free Software according to | the GNU-GPL." | | | Perhaps we could write: | | | Yes, KDE is free software according to the GNU General Public | License. All KDE applications are licensed under the GPL. | All KDE libraries are available under the LGPL allowing for | using them by your own applications - no matter whether they | are Free Software according to the GNU-GPL or not. | | or something like that... :-)
send it to kde-doc-english at kde.org as they seem to be the one who are maintaining it Fab -- Fabrice Mous Jabber ID: fab at vosberg.be http://www.xs4all.nl/~leintje ~~ fabricemous at xs4all.nl http://www.kde.nl ~~ fabrice at kde.nl http://www.vosberg.be ~~ fabricemous at vosberg.be
