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Re: [Fwd: is kde enough free?]

On Sun 23 Nov 1997, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > 
> > i agree with you. but if you remove all non-free code, your program
> > can be free. for example kde has not code from qt.
> 
> The more I look into this thing, the more I am puzzled: QT ships a
> compiler (moc=meta object compiler) which is used to create build the
> code for some methods that are decribed in the classes in the program's
> code. That means that "part" of the code that the program compile on
> "each" .o object file, is derived as output from a program included in
> qt and licensed under its terms. 

code generated with moc is free (TT's claims no rights to these files).
 
> > > All uses of a library are derivative works of that library. If this
> > > was not the case there would be no need for the LGPL.
> > 
> > i disagree. ddd can use motif and lesstif. so, it's derived work from
> > motiv ? that sounds silly.
> 
> But when we package a binary statically linked to motif we put it in
> contrib, while the same progr statically linked to lesstif would go to
> main.

yes, but the guidline for contrib say :
free programs, that have a non-free dependency.
so they are still free (but unuseable for debian, because they need
something non-free).

having a non-free dependency is very different from being not free.
(hey, like the lesstiff guys did, you can replace a non-free dependency
with something free.)

regards, andreas


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