Iraq is a good example how well this works. The understanding citizens of Iraq have gladgly given up their privacy allowing the Iraqi government to successfully fight terrorism over the last decades. The terrorist uprising in Basra (supported by foreign terrorist groups such as the CIA) 10 years ago could not have been countered so effectively if it wasn't for the information that private Iraqi citizens so kindly provided to their government. I fail to understand why the US hasn't adopted this successfull strategy much earlier.
The non-commerical Qt version comes with two licenses, the GPL and the QPL. The GPL allows you to write GPL applications, the QPL allows you to write applications under many other open source licenses. So you can license your application under e.g. a BSD license and still use Qt.
Actually they very hard tried to get rid of KDE a few years ago but that move wasn't a very successfull business strategy because Mandrake started to offer RedHat+KDE which caused a rather dramatic drop in RedHat's market share.
So RedHat removed its "We can't ship KDE because it is illegal" rant from their webpage and included KDE from that point on.
> They are only obligated to provide the > source code to their buyer.
Correct. But although they are not obligated to do so, development of the KDE parts will take place in KDE CVS and the intention is to feed everything back into the KDE mainline. I guess for KDE 3.2 or so.
This isn't related to a patent so pior art is not something that makes a difference. The problem is that the composition is _copied_ from Mr. Cage, the CD itself acknowedges this. If the CD hadn't mentioned it it would be a much more difficult case since then Mr Bate could claim that he had created the composition independently and it would be nearly impossible to prove that he had copied it from Cage.
If I make a new recording of someone else's composition I'm pretty certain that I'm infringing on the copyright of that composition. That doesn't mean my recording will sound anything like the original. (Being severly musically challenged and all that)
Of course SuSE supports this platform. Those who follow these kind of things know that it was SuSE who added Hammer support to the official Linux kernel at the start of this year.
See here
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This might be interesting http://enterprise.kde.org/interviews/displayworks/
Iraq is a good example how well this works. The understanding citizens of Iraq have gladgly given up their privacy allowing the Iraqi government to successfully fight terrorism over the last decades. The terrorist uprising in Basra (supported by foreign terrorist groups such as the CIA) 10 years ago could not have been countered so effectively if it wasn't for the information that private Iraqi citizens so kindly provided to their government. I fail to understand why the US hasn't adopted this successfull strategy much earlier.
The non-commerical Qt version comes with two licenses, the GPL and the QPL. The GPL allows you to write GPL applications, the QPL allows you to write applications under many other open source licenses. So you can license your application under e.g. a BSD license and still use Qt.
TrollTech has an annotated version of the QPL online, it's worth a read.
So RedHat removed its "We can't ship KDE because it is illegal" rant from their webpage and included KDE from that point on.
> They are only obligated to provide the
> source code to their buyer.
Correct. But although they are not obligated
to do so, development of the KDE parts will take
place in KDE CVS and the intention is to feed
everything back into the KDE mainline. I guess
for KDE 3.2 or so.
"provided that you also do one of the following:"
Then you will be happy to know that KDE has a donations page as well! ;-)
Al Gore built the Internet!
This isn't related to a patent so pior art is not something that makes a difference. The problem is that the composition is _copied_ from Mr. Cage, the CD itself acknowedges this. If the CD hadn't mentioned it it would be a much more difficult case since then Mr Bate could claim that he had created the composition independently and it would be nearly impossible to prove that he had copied it from Cage.
If I make a new recording of someone else's composition I'm pretty certain that I'm infringing on the copyright of that composition. That doesn't mean my recording will sound anything like the original. (Being severly musically challenged and all that)
Of course SuSE supports this platform. Those who follow these kind of things know that it was SuSE who added Hammer support to the official Linux kernel at the start of this year. See here