On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 09:45:12AM -0600, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > > > But KDE is free software. > > The source is free software. > > > > The compiled binaries linked against Qt is not free software. > > This may just be semantics, but isn't the software "free" if it only > links against the Qt libraries? We wouldn't be distributing anything > non-free -- users would have to obtain their own Qt libraries if they > wanted to use Qt... KDE is DFSG-free, but KDE is GPL and the GPL say: # 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, # under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of # Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: # # a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable # source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections # 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, # # b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three # years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your # cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete # machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be # distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium # customarily used for software interchange; or, # # c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer # to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is # allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you # received the program in object code or executable form with such # an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) # # The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for # making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source # code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any # associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to # control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a # special exception, the source code distributed need not include # anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary # form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the # operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component # itself accompanies the executable. If we ship KDE as binary, we must also ship the whole source code (inclusive qt) under the gpl. But qt is not under the gpl. We are debian! We make a DFSG-free distribution and we must accept the license. Grisu
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