Участие в проекте KDE предусматривает исполнение определённых обязанностей:
- Соблюдать Кодекс поведения участника KDE;
- Поддерживать Видения KDE and Цели KDE;
- Для участников не предусмотренно обязательного лицензионного соглашения;
- Технические требования:
- The project stays true to established practices common to similar KDE projects
- All source materials are hosted on infrastructure available to and writable by all KDE contributor accounts
- Online services associated with the project are either hosted on KDE infrastructure or have an action plan that ensures continuity which is approved by the KDE system administration team
- Copyrights, trademarks and patents
- KDE licensing policy is respected
- KDE branding guidelines are respected
- If the authors of the software abandon it or disappear, they agree to transfer the trademark to the next maintainer
- If the code is covered by patents registered by the project itself, those patents must be licensed freely
