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Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settledMonsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settledPosted Oct 31, 2007 8:29 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)In reply to: Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled by rickmoen Parent article: Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled
You're wrong, according to the research KDE did at the time. To quote http://www.kde.org/announcements/rmsresponse.php: "There are only two parts of KDE that have GPLed code not written explicitely for KDE -- a small bit in kmidi and a few lines in kghostview."
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Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled Posted Oct 31, 2007 22:50 UTC (Wed) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link] "boudewijn" wrote:You're wrong, according to the research KDE did at the time. Sadly, this merely proves conclusively that the "research KDE did at the time" was, itself, incorrect. You can verify the example I gave, for yourself, by downloading a kdeutils source tarball and observing the presence of FSF's copyright notice, plain as day, in the kfloppy subdirectory. It's a bit late in the day to track down what else they missed in composing their "KDE 'Official' Response to Stallman Editorial", but I do wonder about the extent of their undercounting. (I see third-party claims of the day about vt, kghostview/kgv, kdvi, kmidi, kscd, and others, but a single verified example suffices to make the point.) Rick Moen
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