# Legal Notices

## Licence

&kde; is open source software, and all of &kde; is released under free licenses such as the GPL.

## Trademarks

All trademarks mentioned on this web server or in &kde; documentation are recognised as belonging to their respective owners, including but not limited to:

- &AIX; is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation
- &CSS;, &XHTML;, &XSL; and &XML; are common law trademarks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, or Keio University on behalf of the World Wide Web Consortium.
- &Handspring; and &Visor; are trademarks of Handspring, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
- &Hewlett-Packard;, &HP; &LaserJet;,&HP-UX; PCL, PCL 5 and PCL 6 are U.S. registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard Company.
- &IRIX; is a registered trademark and &SGI; is a trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- &Java; and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
- &Jini; and all Jini-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the US and other countries.
- &Linux; is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
- &LinuxPPC; is a trademark of LinuxPPC Inc.
- &Mac; is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.
- &Mandrake; and &Linux-Mandrake; are trademarks of MandrakeSoft.
- &Netscape; is a registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation in the United States and other countries.
- &NeXTSTEP; is a trademark of NeXT Software, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
- &PalmOS;, &HotSync; and &PalmPilot; are registered trademarks of Palm, Inc.
- &PostScript; is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
- &Qt; is a trademark of Trolltech AS
- &RedHat; and all Red Hat-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
- &Sendmail; is a registered trademark of Sendmail Inc.
- &Solaris;, Sun and SunOS are trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc.
- &SuSE; is a registered trademark of SuSE AG
- &ThreeCom; is a registered trademark of 3com corporation in the United States and other countries.
- &Motif;, &UNIX; and the X device are registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries
- &Microsoft; and &Windows; are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation
- XFree86 is pending trademark registration by The XFree86 Project, Inc.