Re: Debian KDE philosophy
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote:
> 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). What about a
> kde-installer.deb-package?
>
Because Debian can not distribute the binaries according to how they
intperpret the GPL. They COULD distribute the source and build
instructions as is done with pine.
George Bonser
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