Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Russell Coker wrote: > >I have one question to that - in what way does distributing a > >binary suddenly resolve a licence conflict? According to the GPL, > >GPL'd code can not be linked to QT; _only_ the author of a given piece > >of code has the right to make an exception to that rule. Because

Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

1998-10-08 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 07 Oct 1998, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: >On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:27:23PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: >> I study law. And I can tell you that there´s not a problem with the GPL >> licence in the KDE project. Even if the GPL (read very narrowly and >> literally) >> prohibited the use

Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

1998-10-06 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:27:23PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > >> Hi Rainer, thanks for the package and the announcement. Just one minor > >> detail: > >> We should not repeat that Debian nonsene in public. Of course, korganizer > >> does That's what I really like about this kind of

Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

1998-10-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:27:23PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > I study law. And I can tell you that there´s not a problem with the GPL > licence in the KDE project. Even if the GPL (read very narrowly and literally) > prohibited the use of QT, every judge/lawyer would reinterpret this l

Re: korganizer debian package

1998-10-05 Thread Rainer Dorsch
> On Sun, 04 Oct 1998, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >I packages korganizer for Debian. Currently it is not on the Debian > >ftp server, because of license problems (GPL programs linked against > >commercial libraries). > > Hi Rainer, thanks for the package and the announcement. Just one minor detail: >