Re: When will KDE and Debian get together?
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:55:38AM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> I am glad we agree that source is great. But the rest of your sentences
> that I have just quoted are the nub of our disagreement. I believe the GPL
> says nothing about the *private* use of software.
Debian isn't exactly private.
> An individual is allowed to do anything they want with it so long
> as they do not publish the results. This is the essence of the
> intellectual freedom that attracts so many to the GPL. So once the
> source is distributed to me, I as an individual can legally build it,
> link against any libraries I like, and employ it for any personal
> use I see fit so long as I do not publish the results.
We're not stopping you.
Why do you want *us* to publish?
> To add some credibility to your argument you have thrown in
> "distribute binaries to others". Of course, if such distribution
> occurred a whole set of GPL rules kicks in, but I think this is a
> non-issue since few if any Debian users will actually do this once
> they have built KDE on their own system.
The binaries of a GPLed work help define what the GPLed work is.
People can already download the sources to KDE.
--
Raul
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