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Re: KDE - license issue



On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 10:39:05PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Is it e.g. legal to distribute Solaris binaries?

It depends.  A GPL'd program that links to other GPL'd or GPL-compatible
libraries, if any, in addition to the Solaris libc, is probably fine.
A program that links to Motif or other not-GPL-compatible, non-system
libraries is probably not OK.

The key that allows one to distribute GPL'd programs linked against
Solaris libc is Section 3, Paragraph 3 (the sentence that starts "However,
as a special exception, ...").

And BTW, please read the list archives.  We had a huge Qt/KDE flamewar
here about a year ago.  Please read it before starting a new one.

-- 
%%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % gaia@iki.fi % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%

   "... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ..."
    (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)


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