*- On 23 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about "I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?" > Hi, > > I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't > included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues > with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the download tree?!? > If QT is OK to put in there then what's the point of saying KDE can't be > there? >
QT v1 is included in the non-free section. The problem is that KDE is supposed to be under the GPL but is violating the GPL by linking to QT which is non-free. So Debian and others decided not to include KDE until they either fixed the licensing issues or QT became free. QT v2 is under less restrictive license and thus once KDE is built with the new QT then it will go in main. This is all just my rough interpetation. See http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 for all the details. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
