Re: KDE in hamm - let's have a vote

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Raul Miller wrote:
  >(1) I believe, at the moment, we're leaving it up to the ftp site
  >maintainer(s) to make this decision.  Our KDE maintainer has agreed
  >to fix the problem so for at least the KDE packages it's not a burning
  >issue on that count.  There are some other packages which are GPLed and
  >linked with Motif -- that is also a nono, since we are not Solaris.
 
Raul, you are still confusing two issues:

1. A developer writes code that uses Motif/Qt/whatever and puts his
   code under GPL

2. Someone takes GPL code written by someone else and combines it with
   Motif/Qt/whatever without the copyright owner's permission.

1 is OK, 2 is not
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