Debian and KDE

[David Bristel]

Well, as soon as KDE is fixed to work with QT2, it can be added in to main.
Until then, the KDE license is in direct conflict with the GPL, so can't be
according to my understanding of it.

							Dave Bristel


On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Seth David Schoen wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:34:22 -0700
> From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
> To: Bay Area Debian <bad@kitenet.net>
> Subject: Re: Debian and KDE
> 
> Jonathan Jefferies writes:
> 
> > Hello David,
> > 
> > I don't know the ins and out of Debian politics which
> > makes it all that more interesting.  But the cd set is the CheapBytes
> > 4 cd set.
> 
> It was CheapBytes who put KDE in, not anyone associated with the Debian
> project, I'd have to guess.
> 
> > But now that point out that Debian doesn't offically include
> > KDE, I wonder what the problem with the licensing
> > is.
> 
> I think e.g.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-legal-9906/msg00071.html
> 
> is a statement of the general problem.  Unfortunately, I still haven't
> subscribed to debian-legal, so I haven't followed the issue in detail.
> 
> -- 
>                     Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
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