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Re: Status of KDE/Qt - interim decision



Michael Bramer <michael@weh.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> once again:
> the kde-problem is not a debian problem. It is a license problem with kde and
> qt. We are not allow to ship kde-binarys. Not in main, not in contrib, not
> in non-fee and not in experimental!

But WHY?

If KDE is GPL, why cannot we ship binaries?

Since it is DYNAMICALLY linked to Qt, we are not actually distributing 
Qt code with it -- and if freeqt gets finished, it could be used
instead.

I fail to see why it's not legal to ship KDE binaries.

> 
> Grisu
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> 

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