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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: RMS,Debian and KDE
From:       "Darren O. Benham" <gecko () benham ! net>
Date:       2000-06-20 4:43:00
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:06:43PM -0400, Steve Hutton wrote:
> Ah, so if someone did a code audit and identified the packages that contain
> such code, and then simply *excluded* those packages from being in Debian,
> Debian would be able to ship the majority of KDE under terms which even 
> RMS would consider legal.
> 
> Of course, it takes someone who believes in RMS's legal interpretation 
> and who wants to see KDE in Debian to make this happen.  If such a person
> existed (and I have my doubts), that person would logically start by including
> kdelibs (which has no licensing contentions), then auditing and
> including/excluding GPL'd packages in kdebase, etc.
> 
> If no such person exists, and TrollTech won't change the QPL the way you
> would like, and all the KDE developers can't agree to change the license
> for their individual bits of code, and Debian's legal interpretation doesn't
> change, there will be no KDE in Debian.  Hmmm...so what's the big deal again?

What's the goal?

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