[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] This discussion of the Qt copyright is beginning to sound like a flame war. Could we please end it and do something productive instead?
Summary:
- Debian has a policy about copyrights, and it's not likely
change. Read it in chapter 2 of the Debian policy manual
(included as /usr/doc/dpkg/programmer.html in package
dpkg-dev, for example).
- Qt's copyright does not allow us to put it, or anything
that depends on it, in the main distribution.
- Qt's copyright may be incompatible with the GPL, because
of various requirements the GPL makes, even though Qt's owners
are happy with the GPL. See Ian Jackson's analysis, posted to
debian-user on November 18. We may need to ask a lawer or the FSF
to decide this.
- Everyone would like a nice GUI library for Debian, but
Qt can't be it unless it's copyright is changed.
- V is LGPL'd, seems to be good enough, and is therefore
a better choice for programs that need to go into the
main distribution.
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