Re: RedHat need not apply
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 14:07:17 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> As long as the license conforms to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, a
> package can be included in main. Last I heard, the QPL looked like it
> conformed...
It does. Our very own Joseph Carter put a lot of work in getting as good a
QPL as was attainable.
> The problem with the KDE license is that, while DFSG compliant, the QPL is
> not GPL compatible and therefore you can't link GPL code with Qt.
Indeed.
> However, the KDE developers are in the process of constructing a new
> license for KDE
So I hear often; I've not found a pointer yet as to how this process is
doing.
> that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that it can be
> linked with Qt.
Hmm. On /., someone wrote
: Last I checked, KDE was addressing that by switching the license of most
: of their core stuff to Artistic (which works fine with the QPL).
It would be nice to have more details on this. Anybody got references?
> The KDE people need to track down the authors of the GPL code that much of
> their project is based on, though, to get permission to use it under the
> new license.
I suspect authors of GPL-ed code would more readily go along with a
GPL-except-linking-with-qt-is-ok license than with a change to a wholly
different license.
Ray
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