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Subject: Re: Licensing
From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date: 1998-10-13 12:49:34
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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Michael McCarthy <goldedge@ibm.net> 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
>
>
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