-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Madel, Kurt wrote:
> And, I wouldn't suspect that KDE would be included as part of the Official > Debian until QT is put under the GPL, not something that is very close to > it. Corel mentions Open Source Software, but not Free Software. Do you > suppose they understand the difference? On the contarary, I think Qt and KDE will become part of main. Software does not have to be licensed under the GPL to be included in main. XFree86, for example, is not licensed under the GPL, nor is perl or apache. As long as the license conforms to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, a package can be included in main. Last I heard, the QPL looked like it conformed... The problem with the KDE license is that, while DFSG compliant, the QPL is not GPL compatible and therefore you can't link GPL code with Qt. However, the KDE developers are in the process of constructing a new license for KDE that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that it can be linked with Qt. The KDE people need to track down the authors of the GPL code that much of their project is based on, though, to get permission to use it under the new license. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' This message was composed in a 100% Microsoft free environment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNx4T2odCcpBjGWoFAQF1DQP9FyIQAIAFNxfyf+9l5XekvuneJOp4RbkX DzOi7u0T3AO+pTS/KNAziyC45+VvL2yf/PqnsDBIUrqjvjMqGjpD74pBCJdOJsak lQn5JPVy+Qe3Yce8J+XDeiRMU5TPNWSotV2RDKgddy5f1xut6U6t6NTn6i9iSxvq s1N1rGdzQlk= =g2zy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
