From kde-licensing Sat Aug 19 17:33:17 2000 From: Joseph Carter Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:33:17 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: QT Designer _NOT_ under QPL. X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=96670625804534 On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:40:37AM -0500, mosfet wrote: > Read the QPL. While the designer is under the GPL and you can do > anything you want with it Qt is under the *QPL*. The QPL states that you > must distribute the entire package. This includes tools provided with QT > and not necessarily under the QPL. > > You can't split the package, unless via patch form. You can separate the > designer and distribute it separately, but if your going to distribute > Qt you must include the designer and anything that comes along with the > package. Well there goes that idea. Too bad too, it might have been a simple solution. Of course nothing related to KDE ever has a simple solution, it seems to be sacrilige to have clear and simple licenses in this project. If Debian cannot satisfy all terms required to distribute Qt with explicit licensing, it cannot distribute Qt. It's unfortunate but what else are we to do? We're running out of acceptable options. Implicit grant of license is not and never has been an option in Debian's history and it should not be now for the same reasons it never was before. -- Joseph Carter 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 do { : } until (HELL_FREEZES_OVER);