Re: Debian KDE philosophy
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 02:55:20PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote:
> As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing
> lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore.
Please read the original announcment as posted on the debian-announce
mailing list and the website (http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008).
There are no plans to stop making Qt available via the Debian FTP sites.
> Could anyone tell me the reason why kde should not be distributed via the
> non-free-tree (ftp)... Netscape is available as well (and this is software
> what I call NONFREE in terms of GPL).
The announcment explains why distributing KDE binaries by anyone except the
KDE copyright holders is a violation of KDE's license.
> What about a kde-installer.deb-package?
We expect the KDE project to continue to distribute KDE in .deb format from
their FTP servers, so an installer package is not necessary.
> What annoyes (sp?) me is that people say "Linux needs a nice workspace" -
> and for me, kde is one - and then say, "well, kde is nice, but not free
> and therefore we dont want to distribute it". I dont want to start a
> flamewar here, maybe somebody could explain technical or legal-reasons to
> me.
Read the original announcement. This isn't about Debian not wanting to
distribute KDE, this is about Debian not being allowed to distribute KDE
binaries.
Ray
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