Re: On interpreting licences (was: KDE not in Debian?)
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:22:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > If the program is being distributed with the BSDish readline, and
> > not the GPLed readline, then there's no issue. But if the program is
> > distributed with the GPLed readline, and not the BSDish readline,
> > then it's pretty obvious that there's an issue. If the program is
> > being distributed with both, then it comes down to which the program
> > is configured to use.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:09:41PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> What if it's distributed with neither of them, and it just
> "build-depends" on the readline API?
That sounds like an artificial situation. Who is going to distribute
non-working executables? Why?
Most likely, this would really represent working copies -- take a look
at the working copies to see what's really happening.
--
Raul
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