On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 15:10:49 -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > Unless I'm mistaken, KDE2 will be included in Debian's site because of
> > all the licensing changes
> 
> You are probably mistaken. While there is a license change in that KDE2 uses
> Qt2 which unlike Qt1 which KDE1 uses is free, the license under which Qt2 is
> licensed (the QPL) is incompatible with the license of most of KDE2 (the
> GPL).
> 

kdelibs is LGPL'ed I believe.  If that's the case many of the original
apps written for KDE could go into main.  The licensing problems are with
kdebase which contains some GPL'ed programs for which KDE didn't get
authorization to combine with QT.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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