Re: KDE liscence question
John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu> writes:
> *John Travers wrote:
> > We can't KDE go into non-free, Qt is in there?
> > I've read all the debian-kde-stance pages but I still don't see why this is so.
> Search the debian-devel archives. There are probably hundreds of
> messages on this. Short answer: KDE contains some GPL'd code, which links
> with non-free Qt and this is not allowed by the GPL. Qt is merely
> non-free, but KDE is illegal. But we should not discuss this much here, as
> the archives contain many ellaborations of what I just said.
The new qt has a free licenze. Thus is goes into main, thus it is a
system library, or not?
GPL programs may link against system libraries, even if they are not
gpl, so kde is fine for main.
The only thing we need now is a kde that compiles with qt2.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
PS: And don't tell me kde can't be part of debian, because it breaks
the gpl, debian does that a few hounderd times a day.
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