Re: KDE not in Debian?
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 08:38:07AM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Everything was going so well until you hit this point. In particular, the
> statement "since [the X license] includes all permissions given in the GPL, and
> not . . . stricter conditions, we may conclude that third parties receive full
> GPL [license] with respect to the complete sources".
>
> First of all, they do not in fact receive a full GPL license; if that were the
> case, then they would not be able to make a binary-only distribution of the X
> code which is distributed as part of the package, which they can under the X
> license (which you agreed applies to the X code).
The license allows everything that the GPL requires.
You seem to be overlooking the part where the GPL states that the separately
licensed software can be distributed under the original license without any
of the GPLed protections as long it's being distributed by itself.
--
Raul
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