Re: KDE liscence question
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 02:42:03PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> 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?
If qt is a system library, it does'nt need a free licence. So you are sayng
that if someone skip a modified linux system where all the libraries are
proprietary, this is OK, because these libraries are distributed in th
system CD? I hope this is not what you mean.
(of course your reasoning has some other problems, because you cannot
distribute the proprietary system library and the gpl program linked to it,
but I want to make evident that considering every library in main as system
library is wrong).
>
> 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.
Please tell all the packages breaking the gpl and I'll file a critical bug
against them.
>
>
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Francesco Tapparo tapparo@mat.unimi.it
GNU fanatic cesco@debian.org
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