Paul,
The applications in question are kmidi & kghostscript. Both
applications are GPL'd. The libraries on which they RELY are not GPL'd
but at worst I would consider this to create a grey area in this issue.
To be clear on the matter I have just re-read the GPL (v2), and cannot
find any clause restricting the inclusion of GPL'd code into a second
GPL'd application, regardless of whether or not the second application
is linked against non-GPL'd libs.
> Even worse the KDE crowd took other people's GPL code and incorporated
> it without permission into a non-GPL work!
No, they didn't. All of the code in KDE is GPL'd. QT isn't, but GPL'd
code wasn't incorporated into QT.
If I'm missing something here please let me know with a slightly more
helpful statement than "you don't understand the GPL."
Thanks,
Ruairi
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