Re: KDE liscence question
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 03:29:29PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Francesco Tapparo <cesco@goldnet.it> writes:
> > Hey much of our code is GPL'ed, but if you link it against a more
> > restrictive library (and if you have a lot of mindshare) we do'nt care;
> > or, in the worst hypothesis, we work hard to solve your problem.
> >
> > This message can be very dangerous to the community.
>
> The current message is far more dangerous: Hey, write free software so
> we can bann it. Thats what you are doing instead helping to resolve
> the problems.
>
> Asking everyone who contributed to debian for a license change is
> exactly the right thing to do, because they should have never used
> that license in the first place, because of the gpl and qt. Its not
> fixing the symptoms but correcting a break of the license each and
> every author at kde did.
Francesco's point (an excellent one, IMHO) is that every GPL program
which is K-ified, now and forever, will require a license change to add
the Qt exception. It would be better to fix the Qt license properly
or dump Qt than to do this.
The QPL doesn't seem to have helped matters any -- the same problem exists
now as always has. It's just more likely that authors will grant exceptions
now.
Hamish
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