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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Liscencing Issue - Taking Action
From:       Neil Stevens <multivac () fcmail ! com>
Date:       2000-06-10 8:32:16
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On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> If some hare-brained debians (not debian as a whole) don't get the
> rather obvious implied permission it's their problem not mine.

I'd say that it's not implied permission at all, but rather express 
permission.  From GPL Section 2:

"If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and 
can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, 
then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you 
distribute them as separate works."

So, if we consider a dynamically linked KDE "Program," we can see that Qt is 
an "identifiable section of that work" that is "not derived from that 
Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate" from the 
KDE Program.

Debian would, after all, distribute Qt and KDE as separate packages, thus 
treating them and distributing them as "separate works."  So, all Debian 
would have to do, to include KDE in clear conscience, would be to invoke this 
clause of the GPL.

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Neil Stevens
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