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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: QT Designer _NOT_ under QPL.
From:       Kevin Forge <forge () myrealbox ! com>
Date:       2000-08-21 0:45:22
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Joseph Carter wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:32:35AM -0400, Kevin Forge wrote:
> > It's OK to ship kdelibs today but Nobody in Debian gives a rats ass.
> 
> No, I don't give a rat's ass.  There are those who do, but in at least the
> case of one of them I know he's a bit preoccupied with a new addition to
> his family to worry about making the package.  As for the others, I don't
> know.  RevKrusty cares enough to host unofficial debs, but not enough to
> upload one of them to Debian it seems.  You'll have to ask him.

What's his Email address ?  And contrast to the new dad.
( What have I been waiting for ? )
 
> > It won't be OK to ship QT-2.2 with integrated Designer but we will
> > perform major hacks and possibly circumvent part of the QPL if
> > necessary.
> 
> Wrong.  If Qt 2.2 does not ship with a GPL compatible license, we will
> perform minor hacks if necessary and if possible.  We will not circumvent
> the QPL.  If we determine that we cannot perform minor hacks without
> circumventing the QPL, we will be forced to either start allowing implicit
> licenses against app established policy, convince Troll Tech to provide
> what we need from them, or if we can do nothing else, pull Qt and
> unfortunately things that depend on it.
> 
> We will not violate the QPL just as we will not violate the GPL.

Cool.  We'll just have to wait and see.

Rumor has it QT-2.2 will ship with a GPL compatible QPL-2.0
I know.  I started that rumor and with no factual basis at all.

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