Re: KDE - license issue
> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:19:51 -0700
> From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> At 09:46 -0400 1999-08-24, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> >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.
>
> No it's not, the X license and the GPL are compatible. Thus the
> exception does not come into play.
But then wouldn't the GPL require X sources to "accompany" the
code that uses it? I realize that X is easily available, but
I've never any distributed GPL'ed software include it or give a
pointer to it.
And how would this apply to a proprietary implementation of X?
>
> BTW, if you reply to a digest, please change the subject to that of
> the actual message you're replying to.
Yeah, I hit the Send button too quick. Thanks for fixing up the
Subject line.
-- Kris
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