On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:44:55 +0200, Kjetil Ødegaard wrote: > it probably means that the package is obsolete; IIRC, there were KDE .debs > before the licensing issues were brought up. (the QT license is not > considered a `free license' by the Debian project, so it cannot be > included in Debian.)
The licensing issue is more subtle than that; see http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 . The essence of the licensing issue is the incompatibility between KDE's license (the GPL) and Qt's license (be it the non-free license for Qt1 or the free QPL for Qt2). Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan