Re: KDE not in Debian?
Hi,
where are the KOffice debian packages for Debian. I tried yesterday
kde.tdyc.com, but they were not there. :( I tried to install the slink
packages but kword segfault! :(
Thanks, Paulo Henrique
Quoting David Welton (davidw@master.debian.org):
> [ This should be on debian-legal ]
>
> [ Do not CC me ]
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 02:05:11PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, copyright issues are seldom obvious. I can understand how you
> > might get the impression that it is legal, especially because everyone does
> > say so and even does it (including KDE, but their position as the copyright
> > holder is special). But that does not mean that it really is legal.
>
> > Only reading the respective copyrights and interpreting what they
> > say is giving results you can build on. And you have to do just that
> > to understand why Debian is not distributing KDE binaries.
>
> In these cases where there are grey areas, I wouldn't really trust our
> opinions to be all that valid. Just as we might not trust a lawyer's
> advice on how to implement a technical issue, maybe we should consider
> having a lawyer looking at something that falls under their area of
> expertise before we go off half-cocked.
>
> Just my opinion,
> --
> David N. Welton -+- davidw@prosa.it -+- http://www.efn.org/~davidw
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Abraços, PH
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- baptista@linuxsolutions.com.br
Information Technology Consultant
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