Re: debian-devel-digest Digest V99 #1035
> Hi,
> >>"J" == J H M Dassen \(Ray\) <J.H.M.> writes:
>
> J> It can reasonably be argued that not even X, let alone a
> J> particular GUI library on top of X, is a major component of
> J> Debian. Looking at the description in the policy manual, I'd say
> J> only packages with Priority: "required" or "important" qualify as
> J> such.
>
> Umm, I would relax that to include standard proirity packages
> those are supposed to be ``standard'', and thus ormally expected to
> be present.
>
> manoj
There is a lot of GPL-licensed software out there that depends
upon X. I don't think that anyone requires those packages to be
accompanied by a GPL-ed X implementation. So, it appears that X
is considered to be a "major component" for purposes of the GPL.
Similarly, I think (I'm not sure) that there is GPL-ed software
that can be linked with Motif. If that's legal, then I don't see
why other toolkits like Qt can't be used as well, regardless of
their licenses.
- Kris
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