Re: KDE in hamm - let's have a vote
Philip Hands wrote:
>> Raul, you are still confusing two issues:
>>
>> 1. A developer writes code that uses Motif/Qt/whatever and puts his
>> code under GPL
>>
>> 2. Someone takes GPL code written by someone else and combines it with
>> Motif/Qt/whatever without the copyright owner's permission.
>>
>> 1 is OK, 2 is not
>
>1 is not OK.
>
>Firstly, the author has been incompetent in their choice of licence, and I
>feel it's our duty to educate them.
>
>Secondly, there is a small possibility that they chose the GPL in the
>knowledge of RMS's opinion on this issue, and they intended their code to be
>distributable under the GPL on Solaris, but not on Linux.
As you say, a _small_ possibility -- vanishingly small, in my opinion, and
in the case of KDE, non-existent.
>
>If the licence said ``you can distribute this code on Solaris, but not on
>Linux because I hate those chaotic loosers'' then I don't think you'd be
>trying to say that distributing the code on Debian was complying with the
>author's wishes.
If any author felt this, he would say so.
>
>Without the clarification of a ``GPL, but also linkable against Motif''
>licence, we should not be distributing this stuff, even if there is no court
>in the world that would punish us for doing so.
>
I can only say, that I disagree.
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