> > Please stop spreading these lies.
> [...lots of threats of legal action deleted...]
>
> Wow. You can threaten people with lawyers. What you cannot apparently do
> is tell people precisely what Alan is lying about:
>
> a) That KDE has never had a formal (or even informal) security audit, and
> recent BUGTRAQ traffic lends itself well to the need for such a
> thing...
The above is true. (maybe you should also compare it to the vast number of
applications in order to be fair)
> b) That KDE, due to licensing issues, could make life hard on those
> building a distribution around it...
The fact that RH and Debian are not shipping with KDE as the default (they
do in their contrib sections) is a matter of _their_ policy not a legal
restriction according to the license of KDE.
> -any- direction), I think they're both very valid points. Care to address
> them instead of providing thinly veiled threats of legal action?
> And how the devil did this -ever- come up on linux-kernel anyway?
Well Alan was claiming that it is illegal to ship KDE on linux-kernel.
Unfortunately due to these false rumours several vendors/users got
confused already and I do not intend to let these lies spread further
without making contrary statements in order to show everyone that even
Alan can be wrong in his assumptions.
Yours,
-- martin
// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany //
// Email: konold@kde.org //
RMSisch ist schlimmer als GNUisch (die fanatisch/religioese
Steigerung von GNUisch, daher ist GNUisch "nur" RMSisch-- ;-)
-- Harald Koenig --
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