Re: including Qt on Debian
Hi,
>>"Conrad" == Conrad Sanderson <csand@wave.me.gu.edu.au> writes:
Conrad> On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
Andreas> : > Could you please explain to me why you don't want to
Andreas> include Qt on : > the Debian distribution ? : : its not free
Andreas> software : we may not change it, may not fix bugs, : and if
Conrad> that's a side issue.
No, that is not a side issue for Debian.
Conrad> You can always just ship the binary versions of the Qt
Conrad> toolkit. This doesn't contravene any licensing.
It violates debian's social contract.
Conrad> I know. I am going to ask the KDE people to make 2 versions
Conrad> of the software, since it is the only way some people want to
Conrad> listen. One version will be dynamically linked and the other
Conrad> one statically (hence absolutely NO licensing restrictions are
Conrad> made). Would you then include it as part of your linux
Conrad> distribution ?
Can we freely distribute and modify the source?
Conrad> btw, this is what Qt was trying to change: the bloatedness of
Conrad> statically linking libraries, which everybody has to do with
Conrad> Motif. Qt is free to use. I really don't understand this
Conrad> idealism that something is either completely free or not free
Conrad> at all.
Sorry. But that is the way Debian is. Our social contract
specifies what our goals for Debian are.
manoj
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