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Redhat's new look

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2002-08-22 17:57. Red Hat

Texstar of pclinuxonline, recently posted a bunch of screenshots from Redhat's 3rd beta release known as null. Redhat has made a huge effort via the use of similar icons and themes to make their packaging of GNOME and KDE resemble each other more closely . What do you think? (Poll Attached)
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Re: KDE's reaction

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2002-08-24 12:19.

If you mean: "If the work

during execution displays copyright notices, you must include the

directing the user to the copy of this License." Then

1) I ran kedit, ran the About KDE. There was no copyright notice just some talk about the KDE team, the KDE desktop environment and some web links. If I don't run KDE then since the About KDE displays "K Desktop Environment." at the top of the dialog, that is quite confusing. Removing this dialog removes no copyright notice.

2) The only copyright I found was (c) 1997-2000, Bernd Johannes Wueben. However, I have noticed that kedit links to (among many others) glibc, (which is LGPL) the kde libs (which are LGPL, yet I have not seen the copyright nor the license in the About KDE). Qt (which are GPL, yet again there wasn't any copyright notice I've seen). And a a bunch of other LGPL libs. I have not found any of their copyrights in the about box, nor in the about KDE box.

3) I'm sure they include all the docs files in the package and have not removed those including the licenses. If they did then they would be in violation.

Note that I'm not the Anonymous that was arguing with you before and I don't like his (nor yours insults).

Please, we are both (GNOME and KDE) trying to do a free software desktop. What is the goal? To me it is so that users will be able to run a completely free software desktop. RedHat (null) is such a desktop. Just the fact that it mentions KDE or GNOME make no difference. It is free software and they are free to change the UI if they feel it is better without even filing a bug with the KDE team nor contacting the author.

Let's be civil.

George (vicious) Lebl

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