Re: legal issues around cover art

Scott Wheeler <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:45:14 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.policies
Organization K Desktop Environment
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 08 November 2004 22:11, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> There are other licenses than the GPL. You could for example use a
> BSD-style license for JuK. Wouldn't this solve the problem?
>
> Or go the usual way via a LGPL plugin interface, or call an external
> application downloading the cover art from amazon.

Well, there have been 49 people to commit there, so a license change would be 
difficult.  And really I'm generally a fan of the GPL, so I'd like to keep 
it; I'd be more likely to go the plugin route.

-Scott

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