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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A proposal to deal with the current RedHat situation
From:       Adam Treat <manyoso () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-09-02 16:26:37
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On Monday 02 September 2002 12:16 pm, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> At 09:14 AM 9/2/2002, Adam Treat wrote:
> >On Monday 02 September 2002 11:52 am, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> > > At 08:47 AM 9/2/2002, Adam Treat wrote:
> > > >On Sunday 01 September 2002 08:45 pm, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> > > >Wait a minute.  Is Jane Free Software?
> > >
> > > Jane is a computer
> >
> >Ahh, what a nice name for a computer.  Now, can you tell us whether the
> > build system you are proposing is free? (Not as in beer ;-)
>
> they are some scripts that we made to automate the process, no we are not
> giving the scripts away, but that is hardly relevant to building the
> software, it's not sticking something into the binaries or anything.  we
> might productize the process, or we might decide to give it away at some
> point, we haven't made a decision on it yet, so we are just keeping it to
> ourselves for the moment.

Thanks Shawn.  I restate that IMHO, we shouldn't label these as 'Official' 
packages.  Even if the scripts were released, I don't know that KDE should 
get into this business, but I would be happy to see the Kompany host vanilla 
packages of KDE.  I think Neil had the right idea :-)

> > > >If KDE is going to release 'Official'
> > > >packages, then it would seem to make sense that the build tools are
> > > > all Free Software.  Sorry, I get a little nervous when you say,
> > > > "...no one really needs to know about Jane specifically beyond how
> > > > the spec files need to be set up."  We do not need any dependence
> > > > upon non-free software for 'Official' packages.  Now, if you want to
> > > > distribute your own packages with as little change from cvs source as
> > > > possible and release them as Vanilla packages, then please go ahead,
> > > > but if these are to be distributed _by_ KDE _as_ 'Official' KDE
> > > > packages then I think the build tools need to be completely free.


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