Re: KDE not in Debian?
Does the license issue still remain? I heard from our LUG's KDE "expert"
that KDE crippled itself to be rid of the Sperry Patent on LZW
compression: from what I've gathered, this also applies to Quicktime. No
Quicktime, no license issue, right? Of course, from direct experience, I
wouldn't know KDE from FVWM--GUIs are for wussies :)
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Anant Kabra wrote:
> The kde team has done a great job integrating the debian package building
> code into their CVS. Or was it a Debian developer that did this. Whoever
> it was... kudos to them.
>
> It's a shame that the issues (??) with the license remain. But I for one
> really don't care. I love debian, and sometimes I like using KDE. And as
> long as KDE is available as Debian packages, or I can build debian
> packages for KDE, I don't care wether it is included in the standard
> Debian distro or not. I'll just have to add another line to my
> sources.list for apt-get. This is why I love Debian.
>
> What I'd really like to see is a source version of apt-get. Like the
> FreeBSD ports collection. I think distributing KDE source should not be a
> problem. And obviously distributing qt by itself is not a problem (It's
> already included in debian I think). So just do something like "apt-get
> source-install kdebase". It gets the qt packages required, installes
> them, gets the kde source, compiles it on the user machine and installes
> it. That should work.
>
> cheers,
>
> Anant
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