Kevin Forge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keep it up. Just curious. Is GPL compatibility essential for > putting QT & KDE in Debian main ?
It is if KDE remains under the GPL -- otherwise, no. > Or would a "simple" GPL-and-link to-QT License alteration sofice ? Huh? > I ask because the only item of concern for KDe are those few apps > which have some GPLed code from other developers built in. ( KFloppy > comes to mind ). > Can someone compile a listing of those authors for so they can all be > asked to allow such a provision ? I started to, last summer. I gave up after getting a few dozen authors, and I ran out of time for that kind of research. Someone else in Debian was going to continue the work of compiling the names, but I forget who it was... > I personally can't see why any would refuse. Those who did would > likely be a small minority with a limited amount of code. I.e. > Somebody could rewrite those sections. They might want to hold off until Qt is available under the new license [and/or until the license stops changing]. But, yeah, the license drafts have seemed, to me, to be fairly reasonable. -- Raul
