Re: KDE not in Debian?
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:56:19PM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > >
> > > [Please Cc: to me when replying, I'm not on the debian-devel list.]
> > >
> > > On the KDE website (kde.org) I saw that KDE was GPL'd. Debian packages are
> > > available. But why is KDE not in the official Debian distribution?
> >
> > The problem exists because KDE *IS* GPL'ed and Qt is not. Both licences
> > are not compatible thus we believe they cannot be legally distributed
> > at all. The KDE people are changing licences as we have proposed, but
> > this takes time.
> >
> > > (If this has been discussed already, a pointer to it will suffice ;-)
> >
> > Here it goes: http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008
>
> Ah, I see.
>
> Yet it says on
> http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-2.html#ss2.6
> "It is absolutely legal to make KDE and Qt available on CD free of charge."
> And on
> http://www.troll.no/dl/qtfree-dl.html
> "The Qt Free Edition is provided under the Q Public License ("QPL"). This
> specifies that you may freely use the Qt Free Edition for: Running software
> developed by others (e.g. KDE)"
hi,
i'd like to point you to richard stallman's article in the book _open sources /
voices from the open source revolution_, where he points out the difficulties
with pseudo open source licenses (like the qpl).
regards,
marcus schommer
>
> Moreover, I've been told that KDE _is_ on the freely-redistributable Red Hat
> CDs.
>
> Am I missing something obvious? (happens to me more than once ;-)
>
>
> Regards,
> Anne Bezemer
>
>
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