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notes 8. Kontact - Personal information manager featuring an e-mail client, a news client, a feed
aggregator, To-do lists and more.
9. Kopete - Instant messaging client
10. Konqueror - Web browser
11. KOffice - Office suite
12. KTorrent - BitTorrent client

figure 2.1: the kDe Desktop

Licensing issues

All new source code and related data files in KDE SVN must meet the following requirements:
1. All files must be in their preferred modifiable form, or alongside the file which is the
preferred modifiable form. In the ‘alongside’ case, there must be clear instructions for how
to build using the preferred modifiable form.
2. All source files must contain a copyright header which identifies the copyright holder(s)
together with an e-mail address that can be used to reach the copyright holder.
3. Each source file must contain one of the licence headers listed below to state under which
terms the software may be used, modified and redistributed.
4. Source files that are part of a library with a public API which is part of the KDE Platform
(kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase-runtime) must be licensed under one of the following
terms:
(a) LGPL version 2.1 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.LIB or later

(b) LGPL version 2.1 or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership of KDE
e.V.
(c) BSD license as listed below.

(d) Ensure that the BSD license does not contain the so called ‘advertisement clause’.

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