Re: Status of KDE/Qt - interim decision
This has appeared several times in this thread. Header files from
qt source are neccessary to compile KDE. The GPL includes interface files
in its definition of the source. So there is the possibility that we have
to guarantee that the qt header files can be modified and redistributed. I
don't think anyone really knows what would happen in a real lawsuit,
however.
On 23 Jul 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
jgoerzen>Michael Bramer <michael@weh.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
jgoerzen>
jgoerzen>> once again:
jgoerzen>> the kde-problem is not a debian problem. It is a license problem with kde and
jgoerzen>> qt. We are not allow to ship kde-binarys. Not in main, not in contrib, not
jgoerzen>> in non-fee and not in experimental!
jgoerzen>
jgoerzen>But WHY?
jgoerzen>
jgoerzen>If KDE is GPL, why cannot we ship binaries?
jgoerzen>
jgoerzen>Since it is DYNAMICALLY linked to Qt, we are not actually distributing
jgoerzen>Qt code with it -- and if freeqt gets finished, it could be used
jgoerzen>instead.
jgoerzen>
jgoerzen>I fail to see why it's not legal to ship KDE binaries.
jgoerzen>
jgoerzen>>
jgoerzen>> Grisu
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jgoerzen>>
jgoerzen>
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