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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: The Licencing Issue
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () conectiva ! com ! ar>
Date:       2000-06-15 12:39:45
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On 15 Jun 2000, Philip Hands wrote:

> Roberto Alsina <ralsina@conectiva.com.ar> writes:
> > Then again, I did release software under very liberal licenses and Debian
> > would still not accept it. KFTE is under the LGPL and there is no way to
> > even start packaging for debian, because kdelibs is not in debian,
> > although there is no licensing argument against it.
> 
> OK, can I try to straighten this out.
> 
> kdelibs was flushed from Debian at the same time as the other KDE
> packages, because the copyright file declared that some file (I forget
> which) was under the GPL.
> 
> It turned out that that was a simple mistake, because the file in
> question was available under either the GPL or the LGPL, and so
> kdelibs should not have been removed, and should be allowed in as soon
> as someone uploads a new version with a fixed copyright file.
> 
> As far as I know (and I could be completely wrong, because I've not
> been paying close attention) nobody has since uploaded a fixed
> (i.e. with an accurate copyright file) kdelibs.  This might be because
> whoever was maintaining it (Stephan Kulow IIRC) thinks it's too much
> effort to upload kdelibs alone, and is happy to maintain an APTable[1]
> set of packages outside Debian.

I am pretty sure coolo uploaded at least a KDE2 alpha package once.

> Similarly, has anyone actually attempted to upload KFTE?

It is impossible until kdelibs is in!

> [2] Being an anarchic, voluntary effort, Debian's actions cannot
>     necessarily be judged as you might judge the actions of other
>     corporate entities.

I judge them just like Debian judges the actions of the anarchic effort
KDE is. Roughly. Tough cookies for Debian, and probably for me, too.

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