Re: KDE liscence question
I think you may have missed the point on this one(no offense intended). The
thing that makes qt go into Debian has been a RESTRICTION on redistribution.
ANY restriction on redistribution of both source and binaries will cause
a conflict with the Debian philosophy, so will be removed. If qt2 allows for
the re-distribution without special license of both source and binaries, then I
expect it will be added, and KDE following shortly after. If qt2 is freely
available, but not in source format, or there is any restrictions, it won't be.
This is based on my understanding of this issue. It is also a reason why gated,
a program that has both source and binaries available for free, but restrictions
placed on redistribution that prevent it from becomming a part of the
distribution. It's something that merit is doing for a valid reason, but that
doesn't help us allow it to become a part of Debian, even if we DID pay the
license.
Dave Bristel
On 10 Jun 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Date: 10 Jun 1999 14:42:03 +0200
> From: Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
> To: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
> Cc: John Travers <jtravs@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: KDE liscence question
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> John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu> writes:
>
> > *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.
> > Search the debian-devel archives. There are probably hundreds of
> > messages on this. Short answer: KDE contains some GPL'd code, which links
> > with non-free Qt and this is not allowed by the GPL. Qt is merely
> > non-free, but KDE is illegal. But we should not discuss this much here, as
> > the archives contain many ellaborations of what I just said.
>
> The new qt has a free licenze. Thus is goes into main, thus it is a
> system library, or not?
>
> GPL programs may link against system libraries, even if they are not
> gpl, so kde is fine for main.
>
> The only thing we need now is a kde that compiles with qt2.
>
> May the Source be with you.
> Goswin
>
> PS: And don't tell me kde can't be part of debian, because it breaks
> the gpl, debian does that a few hounderd times a day.
>
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