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Re: Status of KDE/Qt - interim decision



> btw, i'm not a "KDE supporter". in fact, i'm quite anti-KDE because
> of their attitude to licenses and so on. however, i don't like to be
> hypocritical - if other packages which depend on non-free things can go
> in contrib, then so can KDE.

The problem is that by the legal wording of the GPL we cannot distribute
_both_ kde and qt.  Having both on the ftp site is classified as a
distribution by the GPL.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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