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Re: Debian Free Software (FSF) or Open Source? (was Re; non-cd...)



Hi,
>>"acf" ==   <acf@mike911.clark.net> writes:

 acf> I think it's very unfortunate most people regard KDE as non-free
 acf> software.

	Debian does not -- Debian is aware that KDE is free software
 that depends on non-free software. After all, we distribute KDE on
 our CD's; it is in the contrib section.

 acf> KDE is free and open source software in every sense of
 acf> the word, and I think most people know that - they just treat it
 acf> as otherwise. Just because Qt isn't open source, the KDE people
 acf> shouldn't have their work be for nothing, which is one reason i
 acf> think that qt should be in the non-free dir (don't tell me "it's
 acf> free enough"), and kde should be in contrib - it's free
 acf> software, it just depends on non-free software.

	Your wishes are granted; Debian does have Qt on the ftp site. 
__> egrep ^Package /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep -i qt
Package: qtscape
Package: qt1g-dev
Package: qt1-snapshot-dev
Package: qt1-snapshot
Package: qt1g
Package: qt-doc
Package: qt-snapshot-doc

	Does this satisfy you?

	manoj
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