On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 14:07:17 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > As long as the license conforms to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, a > package can be included in main. Last I heard, the QPL looked like it > conformed...
It does. Our very own Joseph Carter put a lot of work in getting as good a QPL as was attainable. > The problem with the KDE license is that, while DFSG compliant, the QPL is > not GPL compatible and therefore you can't link GPL code with Qt. Indeed. > However, the KDE developers are in the process of constructing a new > license for KDE So I hear often; I've not found a pointer yet as to how this process is doing. > that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that it can be > linked with Qt. Hmm. On /., someone wrote : Last I checked, KDE was addressing that by switching the license of most : of their core stuff to Artistic (which works fine with the QPL). It would be nice to have more details on this. Anybody got references? > The KDE people need to track down the authors of the GPL code that much of > their project is based on, though, to get permission to use it under the > new license. I suspect authors of GPL-ed code would more readily go along with a GPL-except-linking-with-qt-is-ok license than with a change to a wholly different license. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
