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Re: Good News!!!
by blacksheep on Friday 30/Dec/2005, @16:05

> The only way to do it is to integrate it into KDE so vendors
> need to privide interfaces.

That's false.
First of all, YaST has been close software for quite a long time, only recently was GPL'd, and I remember the said integration at least since SuSE 7.0.

The thing is that the KDE libraries are under the LGPL. Therefore you CAN link closed software to them. You just need to pay Trolltech for the Qt commercial license.

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Re: Good News!!!
by ac on Saturday 31/Dec/2005, @04:04

Non, in contrary to what you said YaST was never closed software but has been available with sources all the time. However before it was licensed under GPL it had a clause that you may only spread it in non-commercial ways and have to get code changes back to SuSE.

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Re: Good News!!!
by blacksheep on Saturday 31/Dec/2005, @04:42

Okay. s/"close source"/"not GPL compatible"/g
My point remains.

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Re: Good News!!!
by gerd on Sunday 01/Jan/2006, @08:43

...more than one year ago

vs.

...only recently

YaST was always "open Source".

Now it is GPL. Time to integrate it and ship YaST backend components with KDE as default.

We have basically three - four important Desktop Linux families
* Redhat
* Suse/Novell with YaST
* Mandrake
* Debian

The user does not care whether configuration stuff is distribtion or desktop environment related. When I have a problem with my mouse I want to change the configuration. Both YaST and KControl modules are relevant here. We need only one module.

The Desktop Environment, here KDE, has the possibility to dictate the configuration backend. A power that has to be used because Distributors are unable to make the necessary changes on their own to get compatibility with other distributions.

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