Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Yogesh Marwaha
On 10 December 2012 00:56, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Kevin Krammer wrote: >> On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Yogesh Marwaha wrote: >> > That's where i'm confused. Even for one function of 5-6 lines, I assume >> > I'll have to include license part also. Then where do I include it >> > be

Re: Developers and KDE Brainstorm

2012-12-09 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 20:14:00 CEST, Martin Graesslin wrote: > So my suggestion would be to get the developers' feedback into > brainstorm to figure out what the developers think about it. For that purpose it might be helpful to have users select a component for the Brainstorm (like tagg

Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Yogesh Marwaha wrote: > > That's where i'm confused. Even for one function of 5-6 lines, I assume > > I'll have to include license part also. Then where do I include it > > begining of file or begining of function? > > Your choic

Re: Developers and KDE Brainstorm

2012-12-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Martin Graesslin wrote: > Another general problem is that developers probably have their own agenda > and have their own ideas on how to take the software further. Personally I > doubt that anyone is waiting for users to come up with new ideas. So I see > user suggested feat

Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Yogesh Marwaha wrote: > That's where i'm confused. Even for one function of 5-6 lines, I assume > I'll have to include license part also. Then where do I include it begining > of file or begining of function? Your choice. What was the licence of the file you got the functio

Re: Developers and KDE Brainstorm

2012-12-09 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Saturday 08 December 2012 23:57:35 Dion Moult wrote: > Every so often, I will pick the users top choices that seem plausible and > will bring them to _you_, and discuss how to evolve the idea into something > that could be implemented. Then we can open up an enhancement bug report in > BKO, and

Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Yogesh Marwaha
On Dec 9, 2012 11:24 PM, "Kevin Krammer" wrote: > > On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > > Hi Yogesh, > > > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Yogesh Marwaha > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have incorporated parts of source code from KDE software in my software > > > as > > > per f

Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > Hi Yogesh, > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Yogesh Marwaha wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have incorporated parts of source code from KDE software in my software > > as > > per following: - > > KDE softwares' source code are usually licensed as

Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Yogesh Marwaha wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > My software is licensed under gpl v3 and hosted at sourceforge, so that > means I need not to mention orginal developer's or project's name? > Its not necessary to do that in the application itself, but you have to ma

Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Yogesh Marwaha
Thanks for the reply. My software is licensed under gpl v3 and hosted at sourceforge, so that means I need not to mention orginal developer's or project's name? On Dec 9, 2012 11:09 PM, "Shantanu Tushar Jha" wrote: > Hi Yogesh, > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Yogesh Marwaha wrote: > >> Hi, >

Re: How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hi Yogesh, On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Yogesh Marwaha wrote: > Hi, > > I have incorporated parts of source code from KDE software in my software > as > per following: - > KDE softwares' source code are usually licensed as GPL, which means that if you copy KDE source code, you must license y

How to give due credit for code I copied from KDE?

2012-12-09 Thread Yogesh Marwaha
Hi, I have incorporated parts of source code from KDE software in my software as per following: - i) I've copied one function (5-6 lines) which is used as it was. ii) I've copied one class from old release (KDE3) and made few changes; mostly port to Qt4. The question is, how do I give due credit

Re: Developers and KDE Brainstorm

2012-12-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/12 13:50, Frank Reininghaus wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/12/8 Dion Moult: >> Hello all, >> >> On occasion (less actively nowadays) I prune the KDE brainstorm >> section. For those who don't know, the KDE forums have a section >> called Brainstorm,

Re: Developers and KDE Brainstorm

2012-12-09 Thread Frank Reininghaus
Hi, 2012/12/8 Dion Moult: > Hello all, > > On occasion (less actively nowadays) I prune the KDE brainstorm section. For > those who don't know, the KDE forums have a section called Brainstorm, where > the users can submit ideas and vote on them. first of all, thanks for your work! I think that th

Developers and KDE Brainstorm

2012-12-09 Thread Dion Moult
Hello all, On occasion (less actively nowadays) I prune the KDE brainstorm section. For those who don't know, the KDE forums have a section called Brainstorm, where the users can submit ideas and vote on them. One of the things I rarely get to do is move submitted ideas into the "In progress"