[plug] KDE licence (was Debian was Mandrake)

[russ]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > russ wrote:
> > > Is KDE illegally licensed? I thought that was all sorted?
> >From my POV, it is. Richard Stallman may disagree. (-:
> Have you read the GPL recently? It is pretty clear that it _does_not_ give
> you permission to link to non-GPLed software.

I thought KDE was LGPL, which allows that?

"The GNU Lesser General Public License, or GNU LGPL for short. 
This is a free software license, but not a strong copyleft license,
because it permits linking with non-free modules. It is compatible
with the GNU GPL."