J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 14:00:56 -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > > The KDE folks had/have no exception and thus were/are violating the GPL. > > Only if they're reusing other people's GPLed code, which reportedly they > don't. > > Remember, an author isn't bound by the copyright license she puts on her own > work, so it's not a case of the KDE project violating the GPL. The violation > occurs when others distribute KDE binaries.
They certianly were back when KDE was in debian before we realized about the licence conflict (I maintained it). I know they used rxvt sources, probably xcalc sources, and I'm sure others. I suspect they have been getting rid of them in the time since. -- see shy jo
