From kde-licensing Tue Jun 20 14:52:07 2000 From: Steve Hutton Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:52:07 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: RMS,Debian and KDE X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=96151320828594 On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > 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). Ah, so it is Debian's policy to exclude packages that even RMS would say are legal to distribute. > 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 Has anyone considered waging a campaign to force either the authors of these packages or the authors of XForms to change their license? A good place to start might be a prominantly placed editorial on freshmeat or slashdot. If enough anger could be drummed up against them, surely they would eventually cave in. Steve