DB design document

[David Merrill]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:10:37PM -0600, Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:58:22PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > All of the above may look like I'm trying to create problems for the
> > GnuCash project,but I'm actually trying to prevent them. If you don't
> > consider these issues before you write the code, many others will bring
> > them up, and it will be much harder to resolve. This is exactly the same
> > problem as the KDE/Qt problem of recently, with KDE in serious denial.
> 
> Rest assured that the gnucash developers are just as concerned about
> this stuff as you are.  We absolutely do not want to use any component
> that makes any problems for distributing gnucash under straight GPL,
> nor do anything that would cause Debian or other free software
> distributors to consider gnucash to be non-free in any way. We cannot
> and will not be cavalier about software licensing.

I for one wouldn't be volunteering my valuable time to any project
that didn't value freedom.

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