Re: Summary of KDE threads?

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

> Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> > So is there somebody who reads all and is willing to give a summary of 
> > things said when the threads reach an end? I'm sure there are more people 
> > interested in such a summary, and it also could be placed on the 
> > web-site, so we have a document explaining our eventual choice.
> 
> Quick summary: it's illegal to ship GPLed code which is a part of
> something which specifically requires both the GPLed code and some
> non-free code.  So we probably shouldn't be putting any GPLed code in
> contrib.

Correct, except that it's the binaries, rather than the code, that it is 
illegal to ship.  The code really is under the GPL.

The code might not be terribly useful until it is compiled in conjunction with 
non-free code, but that's a different issue.

> The author of the GPLed code can provide an exemption which would let us 
> put the code in contrib.  There's nothing we can do to force them to
> provide such an exemption.

Cheers, Phil.



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