Re: Should we ship KDE in hamm?
Philip Hands wrote:
>
> Hi Stephan,
>
> As Francesco points out below, there seem to be several KDE binaries that
> use code written by people who are not members of the KDE team, that are
> covered by questionable licences.
>
> This makes the whole licensing issue rather more complicated (not that it
> started out being particularly simple ;), and we unfortunately don't have
> a lot of time to sort this out before the 2.0 release.
>
> Others have suggested that the KDE packages in hamm are obsolescent, since
> the slink versions are much more up to date and/or usable (is this true ?)
>
> These two things make it seem reasonable to remove the KDE packages from hamm,
> but I'd like to know how you (as maintainer of the packages, and a KDE core
> developer) feel about this, before doing anything about it.
>
> What do you think about this ?
>
Hi!
Most of the things, Francesco listed, are simply misdocumentations and
should be
fixed for making the copyright issue more clear. I don't want to go into
the details
here, but you're right, that
1. the hamm packages leak some documentation about the whole copyright
issue
2. the hamm packages are about three months in behind of the development
While 2. is true, I would consider it a good option for debian CD users
to have
a test field, so they can learn about KDE and try a newer version
laster. If 1.
is a problem for you, feel free to remove them.
Greetings, Stephan
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