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Seven Years of KDE Celebrated

Posted by simoniker on from the a-hearty-kongratulations dept.

Ashcrow writes "Almost exactly 7 years ago, Matthias Ettrich announced the start of a new desktop environment, originally called Kool Desktop Environment. Check out LinuxFrench's article (English translation) and the news at Dot KDE. Thanks to the KDE Team for a great 7 years!"

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  1. Re:Qt ? by FreeLinux · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can do this. Many of the KDE libraries are also under the LGPL. But the fact is that many of the KDE classes that you want to use are actually extensions of QT classes. If you want to use those particular QT classes and the functions that go with them you have two choices, pay TrollTech or GPL. It sounds reasonable to me.

    If you don't like the choices then don't use KDE classes and functions. Write your own. The licensing is NOT stopping you from developing your own software for any desktop and licensing that software as you see fit.

  2. Re:Early screenshots? by JabberWokky · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yes.

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  3. Re:Qt ? by yerricde · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only thing I dislike about TrollTech's license is that their windows and mac implementations are not offered under their open license.

    Another Slashdot user informed me that KDE has been ported to Cygwin+XFree86. If KDE for Windows doesn't Just Work(tm) for you, what problems did you run into?

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