Re: KDE not in Debian?
- To: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: KDE not in Debian?
- From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- Date: 17 Feb 2000 11:00:23 -0500
- Message-id: <u1h7lg3vmy0.fsf@oliver.mit.edu>
- In-reply-to: Joseph Carter's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:54:56 -0800"
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 04:22:27PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > In these cases where there are grey areas, I wouldn't really trust our
> > > opinions to be all that valid. Just as we might not trust a lawyer's
> > > advice on how to implement a technical issue, maybe we should consider
> > > having a lawyer looking at something that falls under their area of
> > > expertise before we go off half-cocked.
> >=20
> > Quite right. I believe this step has already been taken.
>
> You wish. =3D>
>
> RMS has commented on the opinions of the FSF lawyer(s), but that's the
> extent anyone has really looked into the matter other than individual
> dists asking their lawyers "will distributing this get us sued?"
So David Walton said "someone should ask a lawyer."
I said "I believe someone *has* asked a lawyer."
And you first: say "you wish" as if nobody had asked a lawyer, and
then second: describe what two different groups of lawyers said in
response to some questions on the subject.
As I said, someone has.
And the answer is:
1) Illegal
2) The KDE people probably won't sue.
Mind you, if they had taken *my* GPL'd code and were linking it with
QPL'd code, I very well might consider a lawsuit.
Thomas
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