Re: KDE liscence question
Goswin Brederlow writes:
> Thats the brainddead part of gpl and to make the GPL less "antisocial",
> defining main as the major components of the Debian system, which they
> are anyway, is the right thing in my view.
We don't get to redefine the terms used in the license on someone else's
program. The GPL definition of "major components" is vague, but not *that*
vague.
> If "major components" are defined that way, we can distribute kde with
> debian, because it then only links against a major component (qt), which
> is allowed. Since kde is distributed as single bz2/rpm/deb files and qt
> is distributed by Troll, qt doesnt count as acompaning kde.
If Qt and KDE are on the same CD they are being distributed together.
> All of this of causes needs a qt in main.
I can't parse that sentence.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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