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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