uff, well...
Well, this means that as stated by Tim, and which requires the licensing of KDE!, only the artworks are licensed under a permit like, the rest is about GPL, BSD or MIT. This means that the desktop of the Trinity can be called as it want, except KDE maibe, since KDE noticed that has right next one an "(R)" as very small caracter je je ... and the artworks must be changed, since the 3 Series are CC-3. as stated in the verse 10 of the KDE Public License.
CITE: KDE licence extrac:
10. Standalone media files such as images may be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . This does not apply to icons or anything which is likely to be mixed with content under our normal (GPL etc) licences.
Ideally, that would be nice if kde adopted as official folk project, along with kde4, kde3 as Trinity fact desktop (because of series 3) and kde4 as plasma desktop or someting. It would be too much that dream, it would be that the join forces with Nokia & mocosoft are not a reality, and sun will back and get java again? but the reality is hardes, and now must change the artowrks of trinity, cos there are under CC-3 licence.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:07 PM, David C. Rankin < drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 03/03/2011 11:55 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
It's quite simple really. We have no legal right to use the trademark "KDE" for anything. KDE e.V. has graciously cut us some slack during
this
transitional period, but they could easily demand full removal of all of their trademarks at any time (e.g. if this project starts actually competing with KDE4 for some reason).
Tim
I hate using the worn out "win-win" phrase, but from kde.org's standpoint, I think that this project serves as an asset. It generates an overwhelming interest in kde where that interest would now be with Gnome or Fluxbox without Trinity.
I'm not advocating changing Trinity to KDE Classic by any stretch. The way I see it, is from the branding standpoint of something like:
KDE Classic -> The Trinity Desktop
or
Trinity Desktop (KDE3 - next generation)
I haven't even thought through the formalities yet, but I don't think we need a rebranding of Trinity at all. Honestly, I can't see anyone's ox getting gored by the fact that there is still kde3 artwork in Trinity.. it's a fork, it's gpl, we include a license, that's the way it works...
If there are any concerns on the Trinity side, then they need to be identified and considered, and then if warranted, agreements sought to put the issues to rest, if any, so everybody is happy :)
I think Trinity is well known enough in the community that it can pretty much stand on its own as a name. If there is an arrangement that can benefit Trinity as well as kde, then that is something that helps everyone out and can easily be pursued.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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