Re: Status of KDE/Qt - interim decision
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote:
>
> > Why can't we put KDE in non-free w/ QT? I missed that part.
>
> I agree. In fact, I'd argue that our policy _requires_ us to do this.
Please re-read Ian's post. Let me try to give an example..
I wrote 'foo' and placed it under the GPL.
Bob, a KDE person thought that 'foo' was cool so he wrote a KDE front end
and placed that under the GPL
Now kfoo with my integrated code is perfectly fine, it is all gpl'd. But
when you distributed kfoo and QT together (ie in contrib or on a CD) you
have created a Derived Work that must -ALL- fall under the GPL. Since QT
does not we are in violation by distributing them together.
For purely KDE programs we know that KDE gives explicit permission to link
with QT. But in the case of kfoo -I- never gave permission and I could
very easialy complain to debian that Debian does NOT have permission to
distribute it with QT.
This is the main problem with the QT license that everyone likes to
debate:
Free/QT requires that programs/libraries linked to it be GPL'd.
The GPL requires that programs/libraries linked to it be GPL'd.
Free/QT is not GPL'd
For some very nice prose about this see all of RMS's comments on the
netscape license and why it is bad because it doesn't allow linking with
GPL'd code.
Jason
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