Re: Status of KDE/Qt - interim decision

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> > > 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.
> 
> Are you sure? I think it is okay to have the KDE sources on the ftp site.

You are correct.  It's the KDE binaries (i.e. ".deb" packages) that cause
the problem.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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