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Re: KDE not in Debian?



On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 06:53:39PM -0800, David Johnson wrote:
> IANAL, but I near as I can figure, Qt is normally distributed with my
> OS. To quote: "...the source code distributed need not include anything
> that is normally distributed ... with the major components ... of the
> operating system on which the executable runs...". In the case of

Why should we use this copout clause?

Using the same clause we could distribute proprietary, sourceless
libraries in our main distribution. Not bloody likely.

> There is a third way. And that would be for GPLv3 to specifically allow
> dynamic linking to non-GPL libraries.

Not a chance in hell I'd say.


Hamish
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