Re: KDE not in Debian?
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:00:51PM -0800, David Johnson wrote:
> Joe Drew wrote:
>
> > It's hard to say what the intention of rms was on this.
>
> I may be wrong, not being able to see into Richard's mind, but I would
> hazard a guess. It's so that Free Software can be written for and ported
> to nonfree operating systems. The nearest nonfree equivalents to Qt
> would be Motif and MFC. And in both cases there are GPLd applications
> using them with no legal hassles at all.
That's one option; another, however, is that rms simply meant to allow
people to be saved the hassle of distributing the source to, for example,
libc, which is distributed with the OS.
It's not necessarily true - or even likely - but it's possible.
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