[plug] KDE licence (was Debian was Mandrake)

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, russ wrote:
> Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> > > russ wrote:
> > > > Is KDE illegally licensed? I thought that was all sorted?
> > 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?
Which is exactly the problem. KDE uses code that was licensed to the KDE
people under the GPL, thus _requiring_ that KDE be licensed only under the
terms of the GPL. The LGPL will not suffice in this instance.

-Greg