Re: KDE - license issue
> > But with releasing qt unter the QPL wouldnt it be allowed in the main tree
> > and thought kde be distributeable with debian easily in main ?
>
> You are missing the point. The KDE license (the GPL) says that you may
> not link KDE with non-GPL code. The QPL is not the GPL. This is a
> "design feature" of the GPL according to the RMS camp, and is the whole of
> the "GPL virus" according to the BSD camp. ANYTHING GPL can only be
> linked with the GPL. Or any license which may essentially become GPL
> (including now the BSD license since it no longer features the advertising
> clause) The QPL is similar to the GPL in many ways, but the GPL demands
> that it be identical.
>
What abut the "However clause"?
However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable. (GPL)
If QT is included in Debian it is a major component of the OS like libc in
Solaris?
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Rainer Dorsch
Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:rainer.dorsch@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Uni Stuttgart Tel.: 0711-7816-215
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