*- On 23 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about "Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?" >> QT v1 is included in the non-free section. The problem is that KDE is >> supposed to be under the GPL but is violating the GPL by linking to QT >> which is non-free. So Debian and others decided not to include KDE >> until they either fixed the licensing issues or QT became free. QT v2 >> is under less restrictive license and thus once KDE is built with the >> new QT then it will go in main. This is all just my rough >> interpetation. > > See this I don't understand. If they're not including KDE because it has a > non-free program as a dependency, then what about Licq? In the stable > tree, it depends on qt1g: > http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/net/licq.html > http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/libs/qt1g.html >
Licq is in the contrib tree since itself is free but depends on a non-free package. The licq authors have written an exception into their license for use with Qt. This type of exception is allowed under the GPL. The KDE folks had/have no exception and thus were/are violating the GPL. This is one of the solutions that was mentioned in the Debian page in regards to the KDE issues. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
