Re: Status of KDE/Qt - interim decision
> > > btw, i'm not a "KDE supporter". in fact, i'm quite anti-KDE because
> > > of their attitude to licenses and so on. however, i don't like to be
> > > hypocritical - if other packages which depend on non-free things can go
> > > in contrib, then so can KDE.
> >
> > The problem is that by the legal wording of the GPL we cannot distribute
> > _both_ kde and qt. Having both on the ftp site is classified as a
> > distribution by the GPL.
>
> Are you sure? I think it is okay to have the KDE sources on the ftp site.
You are correct. It's the KDE binaries (i.e. ".deb" packages) that cause
the problem.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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