Re: is kde and kde app source debian-legally distributable?
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 08:15:11 -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> There's a reason for us not to distribute debian sources: contributory
> infringement.
(We're getting into the really hypothetical here, as Troll and KDE are
working to make this discussion moot, but...)
If I understand you correctly, you're saying something like "Putting KDE
sources on a Debian FTP site is encouraging people to build binaries of them
and redistribute these binaries, thus encouraging them to violate the
license agreement enforced by KDE being GPLed".
This is too far-fetched for me to take seriously. By such a line of
reasoning, putting binaries of "free for noncommerical use" software on the
non-free section of a Debian site would be encouraging companies to use
them. And, even more extreme, putting (source or binaries of) GPL-ed
libraries on a Debian site could be construed as encouraging companies to
violate the GPL on them.
Ray
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