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 of QT,

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 the

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

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 discussion.

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: We should