RE: KDE status?

[Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>]

Hi Jules,

> Brief summary, then:
> 
> KDE will not be in slink.
> KDE will be in potato if
> 
> a) KDE change their license (in which case it can go into contrib)
> b) Qt change their license (in which case they may both be able to go into
> free)
> 
> b) is the likely outcome, since troll are designing a new Qt license,
> which Joseph Carter <knightbrd@debian.org) is looking at with a view to
> making it both DFSG-free (which it almost certainly will be) and
> GPL-compatible (trickier).
> 
> For more background, please read the archives of
> 
> debian-legal,debian-devel and kde-licensing :-)

Great!  Thanks, that's all I wanted to know. ;)

-Ossama
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