On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:17:35PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > We can't KDE go into non-free, Qt is in there? > > I've read all the debian-kde-stance pages but I still don't see why this is so. > > Because it is illegal to distribute KDE. > > The KDE license is GPL. The GPL requires that a redistributor make > available full source under its terms. Qt source is part of the KDE > source, as the GPL defines 'source'. But Qt source cannot be > distributed under terms which allow modification. > > Ergo, we can't do it. > > We will be able to (and will do so, furthermore) as soon as a) KDE > changes its license and roots out any code which doesn't belong to it > and/or b) Qt releases 2.0 under the new QPL. b may not be enough. So far I haven't heard any laywers say b is enough and I know developers on -legal haven't said b is enough. =/ -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <kceee^> I hate users <knghtbrd> you sound like a sysadmin already!
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