Re: Your petition to GPL Qt
- To: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>
- Cc: forgeltd@usa.net, john@dhh.gt.org, Avus <top249@g26.ethz.ch>, kde-licensing@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de, Rusty.Russell@rustcorp.com.au, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, ettrich@troll.no, rms@gnu.org
- Subject: Re: Your petition to GPL Qt
- From: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 19:29:43 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19981220192943.E31127@debian.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>, forgeltd@usa.net, john@dhh.gt.org, Avus <top249@g26.ethz.ch>, kde-licensing@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de, Rusty.Russell@rustcorp.com.au, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, ettrich@troll.no, rms@gnu.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87soeaa9wr.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu>; from Ben Pfaff on Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:30:28PM -0500
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On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:30:28PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > In order for QT to qualify as a Debian system library it would have to be a
> > 'required' package, and it would drag in X. No way are we going to bloat
> > the system like that. The 'system library' idea thus fails for purely
> > technical reasons.
>
> X is required for a Desktop system. [...]
>
> That's simply not true. I've run machines quite happily on my desktop
> without ever installing X.
For that matter I have been virtually unable to use X since I got the new
monitor. Unable to see this monitor, too blurry in graphics mode. (not
that I didn't use primarily text mode before)
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