From kde-core-devel  Fri Feb 25 03:04:03 2005
From: David Johnson <david () usermode ! org>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:04:03 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Cervisia license issues
Message-Id: <200502241904.03671.david () usermode ! org>
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On Thursday 24 February 2005 06:30 pm, Ben Burton wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Currently cervisia is licensed under the QPL.  As the maintainer of
> kdesdk in debian, I am unfortunately faced with having to remove
> cervisia from the debian distribution since the QPL does not meet
> with debian's free software guidelies.  Of course this is debian's
> decision, but nevertheless it seems worth bringing up the two
> specific issues that concern us:

Debian can of course do whatever they want. But it should be noted that 
the QPL has been declared a Free Software license by the FSF, and 
certified Open Source by the OSI (using a definition nearly identical 
to the DFSG). In addition, there was no problems with the QPL for 
Debian in the past, even though these same issues have been brought up 
and examined repeatedly.

-- 
David Johnson
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