From kde-licensing Tue Oct 13 12:49:34 1998 From: Roberto Alsina Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:49:34 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: Licensing X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=90828269903485 On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Michael McCarthy wrote: > > Debians position is in direct contridiction to their own stated > > policies qouted from their own website above. > > Er... Debian tries very hard to do things the way the developers > want them done, within reason. Distributing code in violation > of its license isn't within reason. > > The worst aspect of this is where KDE has taken other people's > GPLed code, relabeled it, modified it so that it requires Qt, > and then offered it up for distribution. Which is something I stil lhave not seen copyright holders complain about. We have a saying "more papist than the pope". > > > Comment: This whole discussion to me reflects a lack of community > > spirit in the Linux community at least on this issue. > > Yep. Or rather, this issue reflects a lack of community spirit. > The discussion is an important element of fixing that problem. > > -- > Raul > > ("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina `9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) ralsina@unl.edu.ar (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' Centro de Telematica _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' Universidad Nacional del Litoral (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' Santa Fe - Argentina KDE Developer (MFCH) "I can attempt anything, specialization is for insects" (50% Heinlein).