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This page is intended to be a summary of the tools and processes used by the KDE
 
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* [http://websvn.kde.org/ Subversion 1.4]
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* [https://projects.kde.org/ KDE Projects]: Git repository browser.
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* [http://quickgit.kde.org/ KDE QuickGit]: Git source code browser.
 
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* {{KDEML|kde-scm-interest}}
 
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* [http://git.or.cz/ git], repo
 
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* [http://bazaar-vcs.org/ bazaar]
 
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Subversion 1.4 is currently used for source control management in KDE on
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Subversion is currently used for source control management in KDE on
 
a server hosted in Frankfurt. A separate server is used for access to
 
a server hosted in Frankfurt. A separate server is used for access to
 
the read-only mirror anonsvn.kde.org.
 
the read-only mirror anonsvn.kde.org.
  
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There is interest in migrating to a distributed source control
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There is begun migrating to Git, see [[Projects/MovetoGit|Move to Git]]. A guide to KDE Git infrastructure can be found on the [http://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitKdeOrgManual Git.kde.org Manual].
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management tool, such as GIT. Discussion of this is taking place on the
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mailing list. It is likely git will be used along with a tool such as repo.
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* [http://www.cmake.org/ CMake 2.6.0]
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* [http://www.cmake.org/ CMake]
 
* [http://api.kde.org/cmake/modules.html Custom CMake module documentation]
 
* [http://api.kde.org/cmake/modules.html Custom CMake module documentation]
 
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multiple platforms supported by KDE.
 
multiple platforms supported by KDE.
  
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This tool was chosen as the buildsystem for the KDE4 series, and there
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This tool was chosen as the buildsystem for the KDE SC 4 series, and there
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are no plans currently to migrate away from it. CMake version 2.6.2 will be required to build KDE 4.2 final.
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* [http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/ Review-board] used by plasma project.
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* [https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdereview KDE Review Module]
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* [[Development/Review_Board|KDE Review Board]]
 
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* {{KDEML|kde-core-devel}}: Discuss KDE patch review and tools
 
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* Launchpad.net offers merge review/approval pre-merge [https://code.launchpad.net/~thumper/pqm/test-bzr-home/+merge/296/] [http://news.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/review-branch-merge-proposals-in-launchpad] [http://news.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/email-interface-to-code-review]
 
 
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In general KDE does not have a formal patch review policy for individual
 
In general KDE does not have a formal patch review policy for individual
 
patches. Some patches do get reviewed prior to committing to svn by the
 
patches. Some patches do get reviewed prior to committing to svn by the
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relevant mailing lists. This is the case for particularly large patches
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relevant mailing lists or on the Review Board. This is the case for particularly large patches or patches by new developers.
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or patches by new developers.
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As an official policy kdereview is used to review new applications and
 
As an official policy kdereview is used to review new applications and
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new classes for kdelibs prior to inclusion in KDE trunk. A drawback of
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new classes for kdelibs prior to inclusion in KDE trunk. See [[Policies/Application_Lifecycle#Stage_2:_Stable|Application Lifecycle]] for some more details.
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this system is that not all reviewers report that they have reviewed the
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A drawback of this system is that not all reviewers report that they have reviewed the new content. It may make sense to have a checklist for reviewers to use, eg,
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* All new classes documented [x]
 
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* {{KDEML|kde-commits}} mailing list records all commits to KDE svn.
 
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* The [http://commit-filter.org commit filter] is used to filter relevant commits based on path of the commit.
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* The [http://commitfilter.kde.org/ CommitFilter] is used to filter relevant commits based on path of the commit.
 
* SVN <tt>CCMAIL:</tt> feature used to notify relevant mailing lists or individuals of specific commits.
 
* SVN <tt>CCMAIL:</tt> feature used to notify relevant mailing lists or individuals of specific commits.
 
* SVN <tt>BUG:</tt> feature used to close bugs, and also notifies all bug subscribers of the commit.
 
* SVN <tt>BUG:</tt> feature used to close bugs, and also notifies all bug subscribers of the commit.
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* http://techbase.kde.org
 
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* http://wiki.koffice.org
 
 
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* {{KDEML|kde-www}}
 
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* http://userbase.kde.org
 
* http://userbase.kde.org
 
* [http://i18n.kde.org/docs/doc-primer/check-docs.html meinproc] is used to generate user documentation.
 
* [http://i18n.kde.org/docs/doc-primer/check-docs.html meinproc] is used to generate user documentation.
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* {{KDEML|kde-docbook}} Records all SVN commits with the <tt>GUI</tt> magic word.
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* http://userbase.kde.org Create tutorials and tips.
 
* http://userbase.kde.org Create tutorials and tips.
 
* {{KDEML|kde-doc-english}} Used to coordinate user documentation.
 
* {{KDEML|kde-doc-english}} Used to coordinate user documentation.
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* [http://developer.kde.org/~dirk/dashboard/ Continuous build server] reports broken builds on linux.
 
* [http://developer.kde.org/~dirk/dashboard/ Continuous build server] reports broken builds on linux.
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* [http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=kdelibs CDash build server] stores results of non-linux builds for kdelibs.
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* [http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=kdelibs CDash build server] stores results of Nightly builds for KDE modules.
 
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* {{KDEML|kde-core-devel}} Find out how to submit test build results.
 
* {{KDEML|kde-core-devel}} Find out how to submit test build results.
 
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* [http://wire.dattitu.de/authors/2-Dirk Dirk Mueller] maintains the dashboard
 
* [http://wire.dattitu.de/authors/2-Dirk Dirk Mueller] maintains the dashboard
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* Bill Hoffman is involved with the CDash service provided by Kitware.
 
* http://www.cdash.org/mailinglist.html
 
* http://www.cdash.org/mailinglist.html
 
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* {{KDEML|kde-usability}}
 
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* [[Projects/Usability/HIG|KDE Human interaction Guidelines]].
 
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* [[Schedules/KDE4/4.6_Feature_Plan]]
 
| people=
 
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[https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team The KDE release team]
 
[https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team The KDE release team]
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* The {{KDEML|kde-artists|kde-artists team}} creates offical artwork for KDE.
 
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* [http://kde-look.org kde-look.org] for non-offical artwork.
 
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* [http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/ Nuno Pinheiro]
 
* [http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/ Nuno Pinheiro]
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Additional contributed artwork is available on http://kde-look.org.
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Additional contributed artwork is available on kde-look.org.
  
 
There may be a need to create tutorials on how to create artwork for kde.
 
There may be a need to create tutorials on how to create artwork for kde.
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* http://l10n.kde.org/ is used for level of completion of translations in KDE.
 
* GNU gettext is used for translation in KDE.
 
* GNU gettext is used for translation in KDE.
 
* <tt>.po</tt> files are edited directly in KDE svn to update translations.
 
* <tt>.po</tt> files are edited directly in KDE svn to update translations.
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* [http://ev.kde.org KDE e.v] is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE Project in legal and financial matters.
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* [http://ev.kde.org/getinvolved/ KDE e.v. membership]
 
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* [http://jointhegame.kde.org/ Join the Game]
 
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* [[Policies/Licensing_Policy|KDE licencing policy]] allows commercial and non-commercial development and proprietry and non-proprietry development.
 
* [[Policies/Licensing_Policy|KDE licencing policy]] allows commercial and non-commercial development and proprietry and non-proprietry development.
 
* [[Projects/KDE_Relicensing|Projects/KDE_Relicensing]] Effort to relicence KDE code to use version 3 of GNU GPL and LGPL. This work is unfinished but not still being performed. Many contributors are no longer contactable.
 
* [[Projects/KDE_Relicensing|Projects/KDE_Relicensing]] Effort to relicence KDE code to use version 3 of GNU GPL and LGPL. This work is unfinished but not still being performed. Many contributors are no longer contactable.
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* [http://ev.kde.org/supporting-members.php Supporters of KDE] contribute sponsorship money to KDE e.v.
 
* [http://ev.kde.org/supporting-members.php Supporters of KDE] contribute sponsorship money to KDE e.v.
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Latest revision as of 15:37, 29 October 2013


This page is intended to be a summary of the tools and processes used by the KDE project for Software Engineering tasks, i.e. everything around coding work. This includes bugfixing, review, testing, documentation, requirements etc.

The current tool used by KDE should be listed along with the extent of its use, known alternatives, and advantages/disadvantages.


Contents

[edit] Development Tools

[edit] Source Control

Source Control
Current State   People  

The kde sysadmin team:

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


Subversion is currently used for source control management in KDE on a server hosted in Frankfurt. A separate server is used for access to the read-only mirror anonsvn.kde.org.

There is begun migrating to Git, see Move to Git. A guide to KDE Git infrastructure can be found on the Git.kde.org Manual.

[edit] Build System

Build System
Current State   People  
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


CMake is the build tool currently used by KDE. It is Free Software developed by kitware inc and available on multiple platforms supported by KDE.

This tool was chosen as the buildsystem for the KDE SC 4 series, and there are no plans currently to migrate away from it.

[edit] Identifier search

Identifier search
Current State   People  

http://lxr.kde.org

The kde sysadmin team:

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a

n/a


LXR indexes classes and methods used in KDE. This can be useful for finding examples of how to use a class, and finding all uses of a class while refactoring or updating API.

[edit] Review

[edit] Patch review (pre commit)

Patch review (pre commit)
Current State   People  
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


In general KDE does not have a formal patch review policy for individual patches. Some patches do get reviewed prior to committing to svn by the relevant mailing lists or on the Review Board. This is the case for particularly large patches or patches by new developers.

As an official policy kdereview is used to review new applications and new classes for kdelibs prior to inclusion in KDE trunk. See Application Lifecycle for some more details.

A drawback of this system is that not all reviewers report that they have reviewed the new content. It may make sense to have a checklist for reviewers to use, eg,

  • All new classes documented [x]
  • Private classes and d-pointers used where appropriate [x]
  • Passes all krazy checks [ ]
  • No obvious security concerns [ ]
  • Designed well/maintainable [ ]
  • etc...

This was discussed to some extent here, but has not yet been refined into a techbase page.

[edit] Commit review (after commit)

Commit review (after commit)
Current State   People  
  • Action mail generic.svg kde-commits mailing list records all commits to KDE svn.
  • The CommitFilter is used to filter relevant commits based on path of the commit.
  • SVN CCMAIL: feature used to notify relevant mailing lists or individuals of specific commits.
  • SVN BUG: feature used to close bugs, and also notifies all bug subscribers of the commit.
  • SVN CCBUG: feature used to notify closed bugs of updates. Commonly used when porting fixes between branches. Also notifies all bug subscribers of the commit.

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  
  • Unknown


The commit filter is used by several projects to forward all commits to the relevant mailing list.


[edit] Design Review

Design Review
Current State   People  

Design review takes place on

  • mailing lists
  • project wikis
  • face-to-face/BOF sessions and sprints
  • kdereview

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


KDE does not have an offical design review process. Some design review takes place as part of the kdereview process. It may be possible to further formalise this or encourage design documentation.

[edit] Documentation

[edit] Technical documentation

Technical documentation
Current State   People  
  • Danimo is the MediaWiki admin for techbase.kde.org.
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


techbase.kde.org is a MediaWiki powered site used for collaborating on technical tasks such as tutorials, schedules, and project information.

[edit] API documentation

API documentation
Current State   People  
  • Doxygen is used to generate api documentation from documentation strings in code.
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  


KDE API documentation is generated nightly and hosted on http://api.kde.org. It is also possible to generate the same documentation locally for use in an IDE for example.

It is possible to create man pages and qthelp documentation from kde sources.

[edit] User documentation

User documentation
Current State   People  

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


User documentation is generated from module doc/ folders and hosted on http://docs.kde.org.

meinproc is a KDE tool (written by Stephen Kulow which uses libxslt to transform docbook into (bzipped) html. At runtime kio_help opens that bzipped html and displays it to the user in khelpcenter.

http://userbase.kde.org is intended to be the primary source of user documentation on the web. Content will possibly be packaged for offline use in the future.

[edit] Testing and Quality

[edit] Bug tracking

Bug tracking
Current State   People  
  • Matt Rogers and the KDE sysadmin team maintain the KDE bugzilla installation.
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  


Bug tracking in KDE currently is managed using Bugzilla 3.0. Work was recently merged on a transition to Bugzilla 3.0 from Bugzilla 2.16. There is still cleanup work going on but most features of the previous Bugzilla installation already work.

Bugzilla can be difficult to use and daunting to newbies.

[edit] Static code analysis

Static code analysis
Current State   People  
  • Krazy hosted at EnglishBreakfastNetwork (EBN).
  • Coverity is used to find possible sources of defects and suggested optimizations. Results are displayed per module as part of Dirks Dashboard builds.
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


Additional checks are always welcome for adding to Krazy. See http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/quality/.

[edit] Build testing

Build testing
Current State   People  
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


There is interest in more build testing for KDE especially on non-linux platforms. Improvements include some standard ctest scripts that can be used to build and submit a dashboard result for kdelibs to CDash. This would be run on a cronjob for simplicity.

Builds are planned for the following platforms:

  • Windows
  • MacOS
  • FreeBSD 6 (gcc)
  • FreeBSD 7 (gcc)
  • Solaris (S10, S11) on SPARC and amd64

[edit] Unit testing

Unit testing
Current State   People  

Unit tests may be written with the QTest framework. Tests can be run with the command 'make test'.

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


It may be possible run run these tests automatically possibly on EBN or on Dirks dashboard.

[edit] Quality testing

Quality testing
Current State   People  
  • The early adopter/user community
  • SQO-OSS
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


It may be possible to obtain metrics such as bugs per kloc, defect injection rate etc.

[edit] Profiling and Optimizations

Profiling and Optimizations
Current State   People  
  • Action mail generic.svg kde-optimize mailing list coordinates optimizations in KDE.
  • Krazy and Coverity tools also include some optimization checks.
  • KDE macros for optimization of common algorithms.

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


Tutorials may be provided in the future to help developers optimize their code.

[edit] Accessibility and Usability

Accessibility and Usability
Current State   People  
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


[edit] Research

Research
Current State   People  
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


[edit] Marketing and Expectations

[edit] Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Current State   People  
  • Requirements come from user feedback on http://bugs.kde.org and from commercial interests.
  • Developers may do some research into requirements for applications based on User Research Profiles.

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


[edit] Promotion

Promotion
Current State   People  
  • The Action mail generic.svg KDE marketing team manage marketing and promotion from official kde sources.
  • http://dot.kde.org is the community forum around promotional announcements.
  • http://www.kde.org/announcements is the official source of promotional announcements regarding KDE.
  • Design and maintenance of KDE websites is organised on the kde-www mailing list
  • The Marketing working group coordinates several marketing efforts such as promoting planning and branding.
  • KDE e.v provides a booth box for conference booths containing posters, leaftlets and other information needed at a conference stand.
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


[edit] Community management

Community management
Current State   People  
  • The Community Working Group helps with community advice when needed
  • Code of Conduct Based on the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, documents guidelines for acceptable behaviour within the community. Can be summarized as 'Be Excellent to Eachother'.
  • http://community.kde.org. In development website.
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  
  • Send an e-mail to community-wg@kde.org

n/a


[edit] Communication

Communication
Current State   People  

Developers communicate with each other through

Developers communicate with users though

Users communicate with each other and developers through

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  
  • Add your blog to planet kde if you contribute to KDE in some way, including development, testing, advocacy, translation, documentation etc.

n/a


[edit] Release

[edit] Release Scheduling

Release Scheduling
Current State   People  
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


[edit] Feature planning

Feature planning
Current State   People  

The KDE release team

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  


Currently techbase is used for feature planning but there may be better alternatives.

[edit] Downstream packagers and contributions

Downstream packagers and contributions
Current State   People  
  • Many distributions package KDE3 & KDE4.

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  
  • Action mail generic.svg kde-packagers - Private mailing list for packagers. Includes information relating to security releases.

n/a


[edit] Theming and Translations

[edit] Artwork

Artwork
Current State   People  
Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


Additional contributed artwork is available on kde-look.org.

There may be a need to create tutorials on how to create artwork for kde.

[edit] Translation

Translation
Current State   People  
  • http://l10n.kde.org/ is used for level of completion of translations in KDE.
  • GNU gettext is used for translation in KDE.
  • .po files are edited directly in KDE svn to update translations.
  • A kde4 based translation client (Lokalize) is being developed in kdesdk/.
  • Krazy includes sanity checks/plurals checking for translation.

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

launchpad.net features a web-based tool called rosetta, which allows for easier fly-by translations. This is considered not to be useful as fly-by translators often do not follow guidelines or consistency rules when translating.


[edit] Legal And Support

[edit] KDE e.v. - Representative Legal Entity

KDE e.v. - Representative Legal Entity
Current State   People  
  • KDE e.v. is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE Project in legal and financial matters.

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


[edit] Resolving licencing issues.

Resolving licencing issues.
Current State   People  
  • A Fiduicary Licence Agreement is available, which will allow KDE developers to optionally assign copyright of their contributions to KDE e.v. This would allow easier relicencing of contributors content in the event that KDE needs to move to another licence. It also allows the e.v. to more easily represent the work in the unlikely event of a court dispute involving KDE code.
  • KDE licencing policy allows commercial and non-commercial development and proprietry and non-proprietry development.
  • Projects/KDE_Relicensing Effort to relicence KDE code to use version 3 of GNU GPL and LGPL. This work is unfinished but not still being performed. Many contributors are no longer contactable.

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a

n/a


[edit] Sponsorship and Patronship

Sponsorship and Patronship
Current State   People  

Unknown

Get Involved   Alternative Tools  

n/a


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