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2.6 KiB
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Konsole is Copyright (C) 1998 by |
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Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line.de> |
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. |
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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GNU General Public License for more details. |
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. |
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~~~~~ |
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Additionally, you have the expressed permission of the author |
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to distribute this program both in source as well as in binary |
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form even if the above license (GPL) would prohibit it because |
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the work might have to be linked with the non-free library QT |
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to become fully functional. |
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Any regulation within the GPL that would imply that a distribution |
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of this program is not possible because of this said reason is |
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hereby explicitly excluded from the license of this program. |
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Note that this addition is not explicitly stated everywhere |
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in the program. Wherever the GPL is referred in the work, the |
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GPL with this addition is intended. |
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The part of Konsole that constitutes the `libkonsole' library is |
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subject of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (LGPL) with |
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the above permission included. |
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If you're a freeware author and in need of any changes to the |
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libkonsole for your work, the usual send-me-the-patch procedure |
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applies. |
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Rational |
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One might wonder about the complication of the license of Konsole |
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and it's parts, so some explanation is needed for the ones who take |
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care of this. |
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Because QT (on which the whole KDE bases) is a non-GPL library a |
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lot of concerns have been mentioned, one of them making Debian and |
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others to stop distributing KDE. As a result of this, authors of other |
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parts of KDE have moved to the Artistic License. |
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Now since some of these authors might want to reuse the core parts |
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of Konsole (and i encourage them to do so), i have formally to enable |
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them by putting these parts under a different license (LGPL for |
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these authors and an extra permission for Debian).
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