Re: Debian i386 freeze
Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org> writes:
> Previously Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Hey, you're talking to me? As I stated while closing the bug, we're all
> > talking about: I (as member of the core development group for KDE) allow
> > debian to ship binaries. You're allowed to refer to this and my old mail
> > in case of beeing sued by me or any other KDE developer.
>
> That's not good enough: see parts 7 and 8 of the DFSG:
The DFSG isn't actually relevant, since there's no hope of KDE going on main
while it depends on Qt. This, assuming he actually has the authority to do
this, should be enough for us to put it on our ftp servers. But not
necessarily enough for CD-ROM distributors to distribute them.
Whether he has the authority to do this depends on whether all the code in
dispute was written by him or that group. It sounds like some of the code
includes GPL'd code from other libraries which they might not have the right
to grant such an exception on. In fact their distributing code using it
without distributing all the source would already be a violationg, as would
our redistribution.
Assuming all the code is theirs, then all they really have to do to put the
issue to rest is add a simple exception like ``as a special exception you may
distribute KDE without including the source for the Qt library'' (And have
Troll add that modified GPL to the list of licenses allowed).
This seems so much simpler than having this argument every few months. Every
other developper I've mentioned this type of situation to has understood the
issue immediately and indicated that they would add such an exception, though
I've never followed up.
greg
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