Re: Your petition to GPL Qt
Kevin Forge writes:
> Now when you can get back to me with an explanation of how to make Motif
> a System lib on Solaris...
I neither know nor care just what might or might not be a system lib on
Solaris or BSDI.
> ...not make QT ( under the QPL ) one in Debian or any other Linux
> distribution that chooses to bundle it we can talk farther.
In order to make QT a Debian GPL system lib we would have to at minimum
make it a required package so that every Debian user gets it whether he
wants it or not. If we did do so and QT remained under a GPL-incompatible
license, we would then be forbidden by the GPL to include any GPL packages
that use it in the distribution.
1) QT is not important enough to Debian for us to make it a system library.
2) It wouldn't help anyway.
> Note :- Debian has not decided to bundle it yet and will wait to see if
> the final license is "acceptable"
The present draft license is "acceptable". All that stands in the way of
QT being in Debian is for Troll Tech to release it under a DFSG compliant
license such as the present draft.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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