Re: RedHat need not apply
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Madel, Kurt wrote:
> And, I wouldn't suspect that KDE would be included as part of the Official
> Debian until QT is put under the GPL, not something that is very close to
> it. Corel mentions Open Source Software, but not Free Software. Do you
> suppose they understand the difference?
On the contarary, I think Qt and KDE will become part of main. Software
does not have to be licensed under the GPL to be included in main.
XFree86, for example, is not licensed under the GPL, nor is perl or
apache. 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...
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.
However, the KDE developers are in the process of constructing a new
license for KDE that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that
it can be linked with Qt. 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.
noah
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