From kde-licensing  Sun Apr 05 21:24:30 1998
From: Alan Cox <alan () cymru ! net>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 21:24:30 +0000
To: kde-licensing
Subject: Re: [freeqt] Re: FreeQt concerns
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> > Harmony has the right motives.  And using a GPL rather than the more 
> > Liberal LGPL would protect KDE from Troll Techs possible demise without 
> > hurting Troll Tech.
> 
> No. It is not possible to link GPL code with very much free code under
> different licenses. For example, it would not be possible to port Netscape
> to Harmony. 

Yes.. the GPL is very very absolutist in what it accepts. Sometimes perhaps
more so than people would like. Thats a superb example of why Harmony ought
IMHO (hey I've not written a line of it so its not really my business) to
be LGPL