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by jonhohle 1086 days ago
Is it ABI compatible? You could run KDE with the proprietary libraries.
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jenadine 1086 days ago
That would be violating the proprietary licence terms
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ktm5j 1086 days ago
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but could you explain why that is?
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tylerag 1086 days ago
KDE was created with open source Qt. As in, the developers that wrote KDE used the LGPL version of Qt.

To repeat myself, “Prohibited Combination” shall mean any effort to use, combine, incorporate, link or integrate Licensed Software with any software created with or incorporating Open Source Qt.

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ktm5j 1086 days ago
Oh goodness, I'm so sorry you had to repeat yourself.. The reason I started my question by saying "forgive me if I'm missing something obvious" is because I'm no expert on licensing issues and was asking a genuine question.
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