Re: Debian KDE philosophy
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 02:55:20PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote:
> 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.
Although that's not the reason in this case, I do think that it wouldn't
matter how nice a particular piece of software is, it won't become standard
with Debian unless it is DFSG-free.
(Which is just fine with me, FWIW.)
Hamish
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