On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 12:44:13PM -0400, Madel, Kurt wrote:
> All the best to Corel, but I hope Debian stays free.
I think you can count on that. There are enough developers to ensure it.
Hamish
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Tony Crawford wrote:
>
> Kenneth Scharf wrote (on 22 Apr 99, at 5:07):
>
> > While it is good that Debian
> > takes its time to 'get it right' having a commerical product based on
> > Debian could put some pressure on the distro for 'more timely releases'
> > or worse, a commerical release of an
Sean wrote:
>
> I don't think this would be that much of a problem, in fact I would
> think the trend would tend to go the other way. A software company,
> such as Corel, who has a massive software package, a-la WordPerfect,
> isn't going to be quick to change the libraries that it is based upon.
Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> I expect this will mean that the next update to WordPerfect will be as a
> .deb file
>
> Bob
I don't know. Corel told me they have no plan to move to libc6,
so its not clear to me how strongly they will support their
stand-alone WP. Maybe they are planning to pr
Ray rote,
> > that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that it can be
> > linked with Qt.
...
> > The KDE people need to track down the authors of the GPL code that much of
> > their project is based on, though, to get permission to use it under the
> > new license.
> I suspect au
I don't think this would be that much of a problem, in fact I would
think the trend would tend to go the other way. A software company,
such as Corel, who has a massive software package, a-la WordPerfect,
isn't going to be quick to change the libraries that it is based upon.
At least that's what
Kenneth Scharf wrote (on 22 Apr 99, at 5:07):
> While it is good that Debian
> takes its time to 'get it right' having a commerical product based on
> Debian could put some pressure on the distro for 'more timely releases'
> or worse, a commerical release of an 'unstable' branch might occurr to
>
> Updates to
>the distribution will undoubtedly not always be in >sync with updates
to
>the WordPerfect Suite, so it would be to Corel's >immense benefit to
>make
>sure that their software stays in compliance with >Debian's
development.
One problem that I see is that Debian usually lags behind the
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 14:07:17 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> As long as the license conforms to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, a
> package can be included in main. Last I heard, the QPL looked like it
> conformed...
It does. Our very own Joseph Carter put a lot of work in getting as g
I expect this will mean that the next update to WordPerfect will be as a
.deb file
Bob
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On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 10:37:25AM -0800, Jack A Walker wrote:
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>
> I thought caldera was corel's attempt to commercialize linux. This seems
> like quite a change for corel. I wonder what, if anything, it means for
> caldera.
AFAIK, the only connection between Corel and Caldera is that Calde
I think the decision to make their own Debian-ized distribution is
incredibly clever on Corel's part. It wouldn't surpise me a bit if a
lot of the decision was based upon the high potential of apt.
It seems to me that Corel has decided that instead of fight Microsoft on
their terms, to make new t
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Jack A Walker wrote:
> I thought caldera was corel's attempt to commercialize linux. This seems
> like quite a change for corel. I wonder what, if anything, it means for
> caldera.
Caldera is a completely different company. They have next to nothing to do
with Corel. (I kn
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Madel, Kurt wrote:
> And, I wouldn't suspect that KDE would be included as part of the Official
> Debian until QT is put under the GPL, not something that is very close to
> it. Corel mentions Open Source Software, but not Free Software. D
I thought caldera was corel's attempt to commercialize linux. This seems
like quite a change for corel. I wonder what, if anything, it means for
caldera.
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It seems that Debia
>> "MK" == Madel, Kurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MK> It seems that Debian will have its very own commercial pimp in
MK> Corel.
We will work with them for the benefit of both sides. Debian will stay
independent as before.
MK> Corel mentions Open Source Software, but not Free Software. Do
MK>
It seems that Debian will have its very own commercial pimp in Corel. Of
course that doesn't mean that anyone on the Debian development team has to
do any tricks for the big wigs at Corel.
And, I wouldn't suspect that KDE would be included as part of the Official
Debian until QT is put under the
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