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Re: About the KDE issue.



I really wish we could sort this all out.

Personally I see an eventual merger between KDE and GNOME where they spawn a
little green PDA monster... feeding on the broad band.

--- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:06:46PM +0100, Kristoffer.Rose@ens-lyon.fr wrote:
> > FYI I'd just remark that RMS said in his presentation at [GNU/]Linux
> > Expo/World in PARIS that Qt 2 is free.  While I agree with the reservations
> > we have in Debian it *does* seem awkward that we are stricter with respect
> > to freeness than RMS...
> 
> Free != GPL compatible.
> 
> Please take the time to understand the issues completely.  Qt2 is sitting
> in main right now.  If Debian believe it non-free, it wouldn't be.  The
> issue is KDE's GPL'd code.  RMS has said something very different with
> recards to that.
> 
> -- 
> Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>                 Debian Linux developer
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> 
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