KDE/Qt used to have the problem of not being GPL/LGPL, but that has been more or less remedied.
KDE has always been LGPL (though parts use other licenses like GPL or BSD).
Qt is QPL and GPL and LGPL. And additionally bound by a contract which states that should Trolltech (or whoever succeeds them) ever stop releasing a FLOSS version, the last released version becomes BSD licensed.
How can you possibly get more resolved than that?
His point was that GNOME was founded with the specific and stated goal of killing KDE because Qt was not free (Ximian only followed the project spirit). Once Qt was GPL'ed, they switched their goal to killing KDE because it is TOO free. The argument became that you should not release GPL libraries, because then you can't link them against closed-source software.
And this goes against the whole philosophy of the FSF and Debian, who have always maintained that software freedom is the main issue, and LGPL was a lesser license. At the point when KDE was more free (per FSF definition), Debian included it into the repositories (stopping the boycott), but kept it as a second class citizen.
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