-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:05:19PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> Debian has simply refrained from distributing some programs which had >> code covered by the GPL yet linked to Qt at a time where distributing >> such programs would have been illegal. > >/me wearily makes his plea for reason and sanity yet again > >s/would have been illegal/could have been infringing of the copyright >license on other software distributed by Debian/ > >Copyright infringement is historically a tort, not a crime. Ahem. <really lousy singing> Young man Are you listenin to me I say: young man while you were asleep congress did some nasty little things and copyright violation is now cri-mi-n-al let's hear it for the D-M-C-A </really lousy singing> >Different copyright holders of GPL-licensed software feel differently >about whether "dynamic linking" of their code into a GPL-incompatible >work constitutes an infrigment of their copyright. Because the FSF >holds the copyright on a great many GPL-licensed works, and because they >do feel that such linking constitutes infringment, Debian refrained from >distributing many programs that linked to Qt. > >But we did not exhaustively catalog every case. > > - -- Be Careful! I have a black belt in sna-fu! Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQE9rNRO+ZSKG3nWr3ARAgA+AKCFJK98KRV9t0RYQuhCjFWHWGzRGgCeOiUq jZNd1smWHlsNvrbl9BrFDD8= =4X1g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
