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Re: Will KDE2 be in woody?



On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:44:55 +0200, Kjetil Ødegaard wrote:
> it probably means that the package is obsolete; IIRC, there were KDE .debs
> before the licensing issues were brought up. (the QT license is not
> considered a `free license' by the Debian project, so it cannot be
> included in Debian.)

The licensing issue is more subtle than that; see
http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 .

The essence of the licensing issue is the incompatibility between KDE's
license (the GPL) and Qt's license (be it the non-free license for Qt1 or
the free QPL for Qt2).

Ray
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