On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 20:58:37 +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > Why not the KDE in the Debian distribution? It distributed with its source > code and licensed with GPL( as I read in the KDE FAQ )
See http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 . Basically, KDE's license (the GPL) interacts with the license of a library KDE depends on (Qt, be it under the old non-free license, or the QPL) in such a fashion as to making redistributing of KDE binaries impossible. There are strong indications that the KDE developers are working towards a license change for KDE; such a change will hopefully make it possible for Debian to distribute KDE binaries. 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
