What is the story with KDE and Debian and some license problem? I heard that Debian hates KDE.
KDE is currently in Debian. There is no license problem. We love KDE and always have, and included it in Debian the moment we were able to.Some time ago there was a license problem, but it has been resolved. The problem was that KDE was under the GPL while the Qt library, which it relied on, was under a rather odd license called the QPL, which although (debatably) free was not GPL compatible. (And before that, Qt was under a license that didn’t allow modifications at all.) This meant that Debian did not have permission to distribute KDE, at least as pre-compiled binaries, without a Qt waiver on all the KDE code, which we did not have. Debian was thus (very reluctantly) unable to distribute KDE. This license issue caused a fuss, and the result was (a) GNOME, and (b) TrollTech re-released the Qt library under a QPL/GPL dual license, which resolved the issue.
