Re: Debian i386 freeze

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> NO NO NO!!!
> 
> The authors of a package can do what they like! The GPL stops you
> making a derivative work and putting it under a more restrictive
> licence. But kde are the original authors, so this does not apply!!!!!

Sure, but debian is not the original authors, so debian has no right to
distribute kde binaries which are linked against Qt.

For example, if someone sells a copy of a cdrom with kde on it, with the
current license, that customer can sue the seller to satisfy the terms
of the license.

-- 
Raul


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