Re: KDE liscence question
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:17:35PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> John Travers wrote:
> >
> > We can't KDE go into non-free, Qt is in there?
> > I've read all the debian-kde-stance pages but I still don't see why this is so.
>
> Because it is illegal to distribute KDE.
>
> The KDE license is GPL. The GPL requires that a redistributor make
> available full source under its terms. Qt source is part of the KDE
> source, as the GPL defines 'source'. But Qt source cannot be
> distributed under terms which allow modification.
>
> Ergo, we can't do it.
>
> We will be able to (and will do so, furthermore) as soon as a) KDE
> changes its license and roots out any code which doesn't belong to it
> and/or b) Qt releases 2.0 under the new QPL.
>
No, a QPL'ed QT is not sufficient: the b) option must be read as
b) all the code of KDE is released under GPL (KDE code, libraries,
compilers, scripts etc.)
> Jules
>
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