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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Debian FUD and whining
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-06-18 16:25:46
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Joseph Carter wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 09:30:40AM -0500, mosfet wrote:
> > Okay, I'm now convinced Debian (specifically Joe Carter) are not being
> > legitimate in their licensing complaints and are now just being
> > malicious.
> >
> > First of all, KDE is not illegal. As I mentioned on the kde@kde.org
> > thread, US and German law both have provisions for something called
> > "intent".
> 
> You completely ignore the very blatant and obvious case of kghostscript
> which was not written by KDE and therefore KDE has absolutely no right
> whatsoever to relicense.  I've come to expect ignoring the obvious from
> you, so welcome to my killfile.

Evidently some people have a hard time reading...

"The second issue is if we can use KGhostview in kdeutils. This includes
code copyrighted by a third party. Ironically, this may be a legit
complaint but it's never what Debian people complain about because it's
only one application and makes it much less of an issue to leverage
against the KDE project :( Either way, I would like to hear from the
actual copyright holders about it rather than self appointed evangelists
who claim were doing illegal things even when we are not.

In any case, if you have a problem with KGhostview attack that. The
linking of all our code to Qt without license provisions is perfectly
legal. It's clear some of the Debian extremists don't like it and that's
okay. But a) none of the people complaining are even the copyright
holders of any of the code b) it's perfectly legal for us to use the GPL
on our own code without any additions. If you feel this weakens the GPL
and want to go into jihad mode that's fine, but it is all perfectly
legal and claiming otherwise I now consider deliberate libel as well."
 

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> Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>               GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3
> Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/)         20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC
> The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/)   44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3
> 
> <netgod> Feanor: u have no idea of the depth of the stupidty of american law

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