<BIG FAT WARNING> I don't want to talk about why kde isn't included in debian or about the badness of the QPL or anything like that.
(i suppose you alerady know all these problems here is list of url that can help you to get all the required info to participe to this thread: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-legal-0001/msg00081.html http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/linus.html http://www.troll.no/qpl/ http://www.kde.org/kdeqtfoundation.html) BUT instead talking about that, I WANT to FIND a solution to allow kde be part of debian. I want to discuss with motivated people that will examine all possible solutions of this problem and find out a solution (and we will find one). Whatever solutions are, from coding a QT clone to changing the US constitution. All are welcomes. I think we must only think in a pratical way and consider the time factor. </BIG FAT WARNING> I see five solution possibles, let's begin with them. 1) cracking the QPL, i mean finding an exploit in the QPL. a work for lawer-hacker :), it could be cool:) 2) coding a Qt clone, it worked fine for motif. but Qt is big and it will take much time. a project known has harmony tried to do that. 3) coding a Qt clone but with empty function that will allow us to link kde without having to depend on Qt but kde wont run but it will be distrubuable with debian. (Imagine that lesstiff is early design, but aleready has all .h files we could link program with it program won't run but if you buy motif and ln -s libmotifcommercial libXm at the place of lesstif it will run) The program is linke dynamiquely with lesstif but it run with motif :) a question of words... a lawer may help here too 4) changing the license of KDE from GPL to LGPL, i think LGPL allow linking with QPL, so we convince all kde coders to switche and make a website inviting all contributor to allow their code to pass from GPL to LGPL. A QUESTION NOW : In the licence it is said that you can use GPLv2 or any upper version can't LGPL be considered as GPLv2.1 ? 5) making pressure on troll.no to change to LGPL. With all the hype currently around GPL. it could be possible. Or asking RedHat or any linux-Startup to buy troll.no and do the change for them :) 6) abolish Copyright on digitalisable media in the world (may take more time) I HOPE i will get CONSTRUCTIVE answer. Remeber that i don't why we discuss here the WHY doing it, but only the HOW doing it. Anthony Lesuisse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
