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Re: Debian i386 freeze



On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote:

> > The problem comes when we (Debian) take that source, produce a binary using
> > the Qt libraries, and then declare in the copyright file that the executable
> > is covered by the GPL.  Anyone receiving that binary package, gets with it a
> > legal declaration from us (in the form of the GPL) that we will provide them
> > with full source for the program, along with the right to modify and
> > redistribute that source (a right that is not ours to give).
> 
> So this applies not only to kdebase but also every other kde app, right?

And every app in contrib which states GPL as licence, but depends on some
non-free library.

Greg

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