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.