Re: Having a non-free and a non-cd branch?
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 06:05:12AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Philip Hands wrote:
> >Imagine this scenario:
> >
> > Large international bank grabs a copy of kdebase from us (which act of
> > distribution involves us granting them the right to modify ALL the source
> > including Qt)
> >
> > They modify Qt to make it run better on the ATM's and start running it in
> > every branch worldwide (using the GPL as their right to distribute)
> >
> No. Nothing whatever can give you rights to amend the licence to someone
> else's code. If you licence something under GPL, that licence can only
> apply to what you have written yourself. It cannot affect a licence
> applied by someone else to their code. (Of course, the Debian copyright
> file for the package should make the position clear.)
>
> The conflict between the GPL and TrollTech licences is unimportant, seeing
> that TrollTech and KDE both consent to its being applied to kde software.
> The result is quite clear - the kde bits can be changed under GPL and the
> Qt bits cannot.
>
> The provisions of the GPL against combining with non-GPL software could
> only be enforced by the person who applied the GPL to the software in the
> first place, namely, KDE. Quite obviously, they have no intention of
> doing any such thing, and (in legal terms) would be estopped from taking any
> action because their own actions have made clear their implicit consent
> to the use of Qt with kde.
I think this is right.
But what is with klynx? lynx is 'true' GPL-software. The kde-people get it and
make klynx with it. klynx is not true GPL-Software! And we have it in Contrib.
We should move it to non-free or to /dev/null.
(I don't know the copyright from the others kde-programs like kdvi, kghostview
etc.. We must check all the copyright. )
What say the maintainer from the k-tools?
Grisu
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