Re: Intent to package: tuxeyes

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

William Ono <wmono@home.com> writes:

> tuXeyes is a X toy that works like xeyes.  It is licensed under the GPL
> but uses Qt, so it will go into contrib. 

If it is under the GPL, and is dependent upon Qt, then it has an
invalid license, and cannot be distributed.  As such it will not be
allowed on our servers.

This should be pointed out to the author, with the suggestion that he
include the additional permission to link against Qt, or just switch
to the Artistic license, or some such.

See here for more details:

  http://www.uk.debian.org/News/1998/19981008

BTW this will not change with the new Qt license (QPL), as it is still
incompatible with the GPL, despite being DFSG free.

Cheers, Phil.