RE: KDE status?
Hi Jules,
> Brief summary, then:
>
> KDE will not be in slink.
> KDE will be in potato if
>
> a) KDE change their license (in which case it can go into contrib)
> b) Qt change their license (in which case they may both be able to go into
> free)
>
> b) is the likely outcome, since troll are designing a new Qt license,
> which Joseph Carter <knightbrd@debian.org) is looking at with a view to
> making it both DFSG-free (which it almost certainly will be) and
> GPL-compatible (trickier).
>
> For more background, please read the archives of
>
> debian-legal,debian-devel and kde-licensing :-)
Great! Thanks, that's all I wanted to know. ;)
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
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