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Post #1745038
2026-03-25 07:57 UTC
You should probably not take the opinion of one developer as the official position of the whole of KDE. KDE has not got an official position on this topic yet because there is still too much up in the air: are these laws going to stick? Will there be a loophole or exemption for FLOSS? Will it be possible of have the thing disabled be default and just be there for product manufacturers to activate in their products sold in the affected regions? Will it even fall to the devs of desktop projects to like ours to implement this? Will it matter at all or is this all just theatre and the user can just input anything, say, 01/01/1901, and be done with it?
And, probably most important of all: Will KDE as a community comply? This is not up to one developer. There is usually lot of discussion, often a vote. There are lot of different nationalities and people with diverse opinions. Just because one contributor has expressed an opinion, does not a done deal make.
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I'm doubling my next annual donation to make up for this sort of fickleness, if they were even donating.
I have nothing but respect for the job KDE does to walk the tightrope of user relations and keeping the project on a legal footing that ensures it's around for a long time to come.
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I agree with you, wholeheartedly. However, Nate has a lot of influence and no doubt if he thinks it must be done then likely it will. Nothing against him personally of course.
I'll still be pulling my donations, and if they do decide to not implement it then I'll be more than happy to resume. At the end of the day I'm powerless to really affect change on their end, albeit trying to voice my opinion in the matter.
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