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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Liscencing Issue - Taking Action
From:       forge <forge () myrealbox ! com>
Date:       2000-06-12 13:06:18
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, forge wrote:
> > My lawyer read the licenses involved and some of the better arguments
> > and told me frankly.  "I can win if a GPL violation case goes to court but
> > not an unproved license change case."  Maybe other lawyers have different
> > opinions.
> 
> If KDE wins a court case against a GPL copyight holder we may have won that
> battle but we surely lost the war.

The point was that the GPL says and means one thing.  "Free software
must 
be free forever and cannot be used as part of proprietary software". 
The 
current state of affairs doesn't change that.  If the claimed
incompatibility 
was proven to be real it means that the GPL is an exclusive license. 
Hence
GNU/Linux as it currently exists is all in violation.

You see by attacking KDE and Troll Tech the Debian people seek to
undermine 
the very foundation of there own culture.  It's only fortunate that
should it 
ever get to court the GPL will likely be proven "right".  Right means
saying
what it means.

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