From kde-licensing Tue Jun 20 14:30:59 2000 From: Peter S Galbraith Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:30:59 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: RMS,Debian and KDE X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=96151153025511 Implicit permission to link against an incompatible library wasn't assumed for XForms-based GPL applications so Debian is not treating KDE code differently than other cases. Three GPL'ed XForms-based applications were removed from potato and woody for a similar reason (GPL incompatible with XForms) even though the applications were written for XForms (and not ported to it). The removed packages are xfmix, xmysql and xldlas http://www.uk.debian.org/Bugs/db/39/39521.html http://www.uk.debian.org/Bugs/db/39/39522.html http://www.uk.debian.org/Bugs/db/39/39524.html -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/ Joseph Carter wrote: > For the wholly KDE-written components, implicit permission seems to be > enough. The problems -legal came up with are 3rd party code in KDE and > that accepting implicit permission would look like we were agreeing no > permission is necessary (or possibly worse, actually accepting the license > with no permission implicit or otherwise since the claim that no > permission is necessary and therefore will not be provided could be > inferred to be a denial of the implicit permission as well..) > > In short, Debian's DEVELOPERS came to the conclusion that implicit > permission won't work for us and that 3rd party code is a problem.