On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 05:53:27PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > If KDE is in main, and Qt is in main then they are being distributed
> > together, which is not allowed.
>
> Hmm, debian only redistributs it...
> I wonder what other programs that are GPL link against non-GPL
> libs. There are probably several in main that do.
Either they have compatible licenses or they should not be there. If
there are any, please file bug reports right away...
> > KDE is still not distributable under the GPL, despite the QPL. Q.E.D.
>
> Without kde debian will look bad against other distributions. I don't
> use it myself, except kdegames, but people will choose other
> distributions in favour of debian because of kde. Somehow there must
> be a way to get KDE into Debian without violating the gpl.
So we work on fixing the problem instead of pretending it doesn't exist.
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
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