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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Dropping Debian support (Was: LinuxTag impressions)
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () conectiva ! com ! ar>
Date:       2000-07-10 18:02:29
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote:

> > > What about that $3,000 offer that would pay the KDE project to make
> > > whatever changes the Debian people want them to make? Why didn't
> > > anyone respond to that?
> > That whole thing was rather odd. Most of debian's requests have no basis
> > in law and would require contacting hundreds of people to change
> > hundreds of licenses. Not something one is likely to do for something
> > that's neither illegal nor wrong in the first place - no matter what
> > amount of money is offered. 
> 
> Is there a list of these people somewhere? I'd rather try (or having someone
> else try) contacting these people for a few months than to never see KDE
> in Debian at all.

I will make only this post in this thread:

Do you believe Debian will take KDE if we included that exception they
want? If yes: why don't they take kdelibs now? It doesn't have any
licensing troubles.

Last explanation: you need to upload a current package.

Of course to do that, you have to be the debian maintainer for kdelibs.
To do that, you have to post a intent-to-package request

And then, AFAIK, there is a line of would-be-maintainers from here to
oakland (and I'm not near oakland) and the volunteer will be last in line.

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