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Re: Status of KDE/Qt - interim decision



On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 09:09:24PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> > If we remove QT we will have all the newbies hunting for it.  What about
> > apps that use QT but are not part of KDE.  I belive the Windows explorer
> > look-alike falls in here.  There may be others.
> > 
> > Why can't we put KDE in non-free w/ QT?  I missed that part.
> 
> KDE is DFSG-free. The problem is not contrib or non-free.
> The problem is the GPL from KDE and the non-GPL from QT.
> 
> Read the GPL!

Rather, GPL for KDE and non-free for Qt.  And that's not so much an issue
other than the one created by KDE developers not having written all the code
to agree to an exemption to the GPL (which many say is why they haven't
provided one expressly, so they wouldn't have to deal with this issue...)

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