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Re: GNOME

On Mon 20 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Are we packaging GNOME and the various components needed to run it?

From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
> i hope so. i thought about doing, but kde is enought work for me.

It looks as if Riku can do it.

> stop. don't talk about vaporware. there is not much that can call itself
> gnome, and we should wait for a rist beta or a 1.0 version before
> declaring something as "preferred graphical environment". 

OK. However, I want to help that project as much as we can without declaring
it our preferred desktop until it's ready for that. Here's why.

Someone wrote a GPL-ed package that they really wanted Debian to use.
It was an important package, and it would probably become part of the
core of Debian if we were to use it. It would solve a _really_ big problem
for us. I started looking at it, and found to my horror that the author had
based it on Qt. When I wrote him about this, he said "well, the license says
we can distribute it for free". He obviously didn't look at the "no
modification" part of the license, and I guess he didn't care about the "Only
the X Window System" part. He hadn't heard of our definition of free software.
Fortunately he wrote a curses interface too, and he isolated the GUI so that
we can stick GTK in there without too much trouble, I think.

So, I want to make a statement of support for the GNOME project on
debian-announce. Something like "Hey, this looks interesting, it's 100%
free GPL-ed software, they already have some tools working, it's really
fast to write applications in it, and the Debian project thinks GNOME
is worth your support." Before I make a statement like that, I think it
makes sense for us to have a GNOME package.

I do not want to see another GPL-ed effort based on Qt, if I can help it.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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