This was brought up on the debian mailing list: ---------------------------------------------------- Believe it or not, another KDE licensing discussion has erupted on debian-devel. It started with a simple question: Why is KDE not in Debian? Haven't the license issues been dealt with by the new Open Source Qt, and other changes? Well according to Joseph Carter, there are [18]still problems. KDE is mostly licensed under the GPL, which is still not compatible with the QPL, unless the author gives explicit permission for his GPL'd code to be linked with Qt. For large parts of KDE, of course, that should be no problem -- people affiliated with the KDE project wrote it and should be able to give this permission. But, there are still parts of KDE [19]such as kghostview which are copyright by others. In any case, such permission has never been given, and so Debian continues to be unable to distribute KDE. Raul Miller [20]summed it up: "If the KDE folks would make a reasonably solid statement of permission, we could probably distribute most of KDE. In the mean time, we wait." _________________________________________________________________ References 18. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0001/msg01074.html 19. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0001/msg01113.html 20. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-legal-0001/msg00095.html -------------------------------------------------- Do we have anything like this we can show them? Regards Ian