>From what I read on this subject, I thought that most of the flame war was on KDE, and that it might be possible to include KDE IF, they made certain specific releases in their license. Since I thought that RMS had appoved the newer QT license as a free license (does KDE yet use Qt2, which is the new QT license?), that this problem was going away.
I admit I am NOT a legal expect on this kind of stuff. Is there a way to search the archives on debian-legal for QT? Maybe some of my questions will have answers there (If one can wade through the flames). Is there a way (via license modification disclaimers) that a program written using QT can be GPL'ed at all? Finally I note that debian DOES have the QTLib in the distro, will this remain (allowing users to at least use such programs via source)? I don't know if I would attempt to re-write QSSTV to replace the QT calls with GTK calls, but that would be a last ditch idea. Wonder if a tool kit for doing such an insane thing exists? Anyway I didn't intend to prase or bury the QT, only to get a new ham radio application into debian, somehow. --- Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:08:34AM -0800, Kenneth > Scharf wrote: > > > > The program is QSSTV (the ONLY slow scan TV > program > > that I know of that works on Linux.) As the name > > implies, it is based on QT. It now (version 3.0m) > > works with both qt1.44 and 2.0.2. It is also > GPL'ed. > > Hope it can go in main, or at least contrib. > > I'm sure you'll get a lot of mail about this, but it > won't go into > Debian at all. The GPL is incompatible with the QPL, > therefore > distributing QSSTV is technically illegal. > > See the archives of debian-legal and debian-devel > for much flameage on > this issue. > > Regards, > -- > Alisdair McDiarmid > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [ > http://wasters.org/] > ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
