On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 02:53:56PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 02:27:08PM -0600, David Welton wrote:
> > In these cases where there are grey areas, I wouldn't really trust > > our opinions to be all that valid. Just as we might not trust a > > lawyer's advice on how to implement a technical issue, maybe we > > should consider having a lawyer looking at something that falls > > under their area of expertise before we go off half-cocked. > First place, I wouldn't call this a grey area. The GNU GPL's author, > RMS, and many other legal opinions agree, the GPL conflicts with the > QPL. The licenses are clear enough to establish this point. Ok, fair enough. > Second place, we're taking the safe route. No one can sue us for not > having KDE in Debian. I think this is a straw man argument. Think about it, Redhat distributes KDE, Debian distributes KDE, Redhat has a market cap of 15 billion dollars, Debian doesn't have much at all. I guess that might make it easier to 'win' against Debian, but win what? > Debian doesn't ask lawyers because it can't afford to, money-wise. I think people have more fun playing lawyer than getting off their duffs and trying to find someone who would do a few small consultations for free or reduced prices. Debian actually has a tidy sum squirelled away, afaik. Ciao, -- David N. Welton -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.efn.org/~davidw
