Re: KDE liscence question
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 08:00:10PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> On 11 Jun 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > If Qt and KDE are on the same CD they are being distributed together.
>
> Then we should distribute KDE on second CD.
> Really.
No, QT is not a system library (even X is not a main component of the system).
>
> The best solution might be to distribute KDE as non-US part of Debian.
> Many of european vendors distribute non-US on separate CD. Why
> couldn't we do the same with KDE?
>
The best solution would be to not distribute KDE. But if you really really
want to put KDE in Debian, you can do the following:
remove all the GPL'd code copyrighted by non KDE-people, and the
redistribute the modified code. Moreover remove all the problematic code
(for non commercial use code etc.).
Then we can distribute the remaining code.
> /pub/debian/dists/potato/kde/binary-i386/...
> apt ftp://kde.debian.org ...
>
> etc.
>
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Francesco Tapparo tapparo@mat.unimi.it
GNU fanatic cesco@debian.org
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