On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 00:45:31 +0000, Terry Hancock wrote: > On the Hamm CDs, the "Qt" library required by KDE is not included for > licensing reasons.
> However, the Troll Tech website claims the newer versions of Qt are "free" > software, Qt 2.0 will be licensed under the QPL 1.0, which is a license that is free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and thus is suitable for inclusion in "main". Qt 2.0 is currently in beta; it is not released yet. > apparently resolving previous licensing conflicts. (?) No. The analysis given in http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 still holds for a QPL-licensed Qt, as the QPL is not a GPL-compatible license. There have been rumours that KDE's licensing terms will change though (e.g. by explicitly allowing KDE to be linked against a QPL-licensed Qt (a la the LyX license (http://www.lyx.org)), or by switching to a BSD-style license), which would resolve the licensing conflict, and allow KDE in Debian (in main once we have Qt 2.0). I am not aware of an official promise by the KDE developers in this regard; does someone have a pointer? > The Qt library debian package _is_ on the FTP site, but unfortunately, > when I try to update the package from there using dselect, I get a cascade > of dependencies -- basically dselect wants to upgrade my whole system to > the Slink distribution. This would be okay, except for the downtime. Aren't there KDE and Qt packages for Hamm in .deb format on ftp.kde.org? (Or else, there's at least a Qt for Hamm at http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/libs/). > I'd prefer to get the "Slink" CDs, but will the Qt library be on them? No. There was no free Qt yet at the time of Slink's code freeze; there isn't one now yet. There is of course a Qt package for use with Slink in dists/stable/non-free on the FTP sites. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
