Richard Stallman, of the Free Software Foundation, has issued a statement regarding the recent move by Trolltech to add a GPL license option to Qt, and the implications of that change in Qt status on KDE. Stallman's statement is interesting in that it helps to clarify the GPL license and the issues associated with using GPL libraries with non-GPL software. Stallman writes . . .

“Making Qt available under the GPL makes it legal to take an existing GPL-covered program and adapt it to work with Qt. It also provides a way to resolve one of the free software community's long-standing problems, the problem of the ethical and legal status of KDE . . .”

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