Re: KDE not in Debian?
[ This should be on debian-legal ]
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 02:05:11PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Unfortunately, copyright issues are seldom obvious. I can understand how you
> might get the impression that it is legal, especially because everyone does
> say so and even does it (including KDE, but their position as the copyright
> holder is special). But that does not mean that it really is legal.
> Only reading the respective copyrights and interpreting what they
> say is giving results you can build on. And you have to do just that
> to understand why Debian is not distributing KDE binaries.
In these cases where there are grey areas, I wouldn't really trust our
opinions to be all that valid. Just as we might not trust a lawyer's
advice on how to implement a technical issue, maybe we should consider
having a lawyer looking at something that falls under their area of
expertise before we go off half-cocked.
Just my opinion,
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David N. Welton -+- davidw@prosa.it -+- http://www.efn.org/~davidw
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