Re: KDE: a plan how to solve that
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:32:35PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > FreeKDE is an lightweight approach to fix these issues. Consisting of a
> > simple script, it is supposed to copy those parts of KDE that have
> > undoubtful licensing from the cvs tree, and assemble them in a buildable
> > fashion. I think this strategy can succeed very well, given that
> >
> > * somebody takes maintainance of this FreeKDE package
> > * it gets included into Debian as soon as possible
>
> This ignores the heart of the issue... That there is a serious problem
> with KDE's licensing issues. We cannot claim to be distributing KDE if we
> only distribute a small subset of it or even a reasonable subset. KDE has
So? We would only be claiming we had "FreeKDE." Stefan suggested this
name and a subset, I think you can take that as an admission that there
are licensing problems with some components, if that's what you are looking
for Joseph.
Hamish
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