Re: KDE liscence question

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Thats the brainddead part of gpl and to make the GPL less
> "antisocial", defining main as the major components of the Debian
> system, which they are anyway, is the right thing in my view.
> If "major components" are defined that way, we can distribute kde with 
> debian, because it then only links against a major component (qt),
> which is allowed. Since kde is distributed as single bz2/rpm/deb files 
> and qt is distributed by Troll, qt doesnt count as acompaning kde.
> All of this of causes needs a qt in main.

Doh!

If KDE is in main, and Qt is in main then they are being distributed
together, which is not allowed.

KDE is still not distributable under the GPL, despite the QPL.  Q.E.D.

Cheers, Phil.