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Re: On interpreting licences (was: KDE not in Debian?)



On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 12:04:52AM +0100, Marc van Leeuwen wrote:
> If you insist... I hope I get the details right though.
> 
> So the scenario is: kghoststript is being distributed as executable of a
> GPL-ed source dynamically linked against the Qt object library; the
> distributors read "all the source code for all modules it contains" to mean
> all the source code for kghostscript proper (not the library), and they
> dutifully accompany the executable by this source, both with the GPL licence;
> they also distribute Qt as usual in source and object format, both with QPL
> licence. The sources for kghostscript are the exact ones used to build the
> executable, so CFLAGS does not contain -static.

Except that by your logic, the kghostscript executable won't execute.
Who do you think you're fooling?

-- 
Raul


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