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Re: Summary of KDE threads?



On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 05:34:03PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> The author for the GPLed code is the KDE team.  Right?
> Stephan Kulow is a member of the core KDE team.  Right?
> Stephan has said this (which is recorded in the bugtracking system)
> 
>     "And I (as the source maintainer of KDE and part of the KDE core team)
>     give debian with this letter the permission to release KDE as
>     binary."
> 
> Someone - Phil or Raul, I guess, but I lost it somehow - wrote a
> similar paragraph that has to be added to the license.  I don't think
> it is a problem getting that signed by Coolo.  Even if "we" want to
> have it signed on paper that's not a problem, I think I could arrange
> something.

But that's the right for Debian only. Doesn't the DFSG also demand
that the right to distribute be passed on, eg to distributions based
on Debian?


Hamish
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