Re: OF! Why not KDE in Debian
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 14:01:55 +0100, Pontus Ullgren wrote:
> After this matter I decided to try KDE out and found out that KDE is not
> in the Debian dist.
>
> Any reason why or is it just lack of package matainers ?
A conflict exists between KDE's license and the license of the Qt library
KDE uses; as a result of this, the Debian project cannot distribute KDE.
See e.g.
http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008
http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/17/961300740.html
http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/07/01/962510340.html
http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/07/15/963719999.html
HTH,
Ray
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