A few weeks ago, right before the holidays, some chatter in the VDG channel happened where the desire to change our icons to a 24x24px size came up. Most modern interfaces use this icon size as a b…
KDE has always aimed to put people in control. We don’t want to hand over control to anybody else: not to some service providers […] We believe that freedom is a prerequisite for true control. Some may feel in control of a proprietary application as long as it obeys their commands, but without the freedom to make changes and share them, they are entirely reliant on the vendor’s benevolence for this apparent ‘control’.
Why? Software license does not affect the work’s license. It’s still CC0.
KDE has always aimed to put people in control. We don’t want to hand over control to anybody else: not to some service providers […] We believe that freedom is a prerequisite for true control. Some may feel in control of a proprietary application as long as it obeys their commands, but without the freedom to make changes and share them, they are entirely reliant on the vendor’s benevolence for this apparent ‘control’.
https://community.kde.org/KDE/Vision