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Re: LGPL license effects
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Saturday 10/Jan/2004, @09:17

Man, thank you very much!

Even that I was in favor of KDE being GPL even if you could not link agains it, your explanation is very welcome and I even think it should be printed in the main page or at least on some FAQs well visible, because there is a lot of FUD because of this GPL/KDE thing.
Thanks again.

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Re: LGPL license effects
by Kurt Pfeifle on Saturday 10/Jan/2004, @09:37

> there is a lot of FUD because of this GPL/KDE thing

You are right. The FUD is spread by top level representatives of KDE opponents. It then trickles down to the rank and file of the community at large, because some friends are repeating it.

One effective way to counter FUD, is if more people at the grassroots level know the facts. If they speak up in every forum: as soon as they notice another grassroot friend to thoughtlessly repeat bits of it, they should calmly, friendly and backed up with facts and links counter any FUD with facts, figures and arguments.

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Re: LGPL license effects
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Saturday 10/Jan/2004, @14:02

Very well said.
I used to use the kompany as a example that comercial software can be done using KDE libraries, but some time ago they started using more QT-only so I stopped using it. But knowing that you can write a little "wrapper" library to make possible writing non-GPL software for KDE (that is more or less that the kompany did) in such a well explained way is a great news that should be spread the most we can.

(I'm writing a article for a brazilian site about this just now)

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