[plug] KDE licence (was Debian was Mandrake)

[russ]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, russ wrote:
> > Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> > > > BTW, they have a specific section on QT which explicitly says you can
> > > > link QT into a GPL program of your own:
> > > It doesn't matter what the Qt license says, it is the GPL that says you
> > > can't. You need permission from both licensers. If you wrote the GPL code,
> > > then you can just license it under a modified GPL which allows linking to
> > > Qt. (as sugested by the GNU page you quoted) Unfortunately for the KDE
> > > team, they don't own the code and licensed it under an unmodified GPL.
> > That quote came form the GNU homepage, not QT. GNU has a special
> > section on the QT license that says you can link in QT.
> 
> Aaaaargh!! I know, I quoted the relevant part of it back to you, didn't I?
> It is written there very clearly that you can only link in code if you
> modify the GPL license. Now, read this next bit slowly and carefully:
> The KDE team did not obtain the code they are using via a modified GPL.

Sorry about the misunderstanding here, Greg. I'm not disputing this. I
was just trying to fully understand the GPL. 

I was just pointing out that the GPL says you can't link in non-gpl
programs. Then this section specifically exempts QT from that saying
you may have a GPL program and link in QT. The whole GPL seems a bit
wishy washy to me. :)

Thanks for your help.



> 
> -Greg

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Regards
russ

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