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 -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
