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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE not OpenSource?
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-10-19 8:29:29
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David Sweet wrote:
> 
> A Red Hat page about RMS Linux
> (https://store.redhat.com/commerce/store.cgi?page=/more_rms_intel.html)
> says:
> 
> "To qualify as an exclusively Free Software product as defined by the FSF, this
> four CD set does not contain Netscape, Qt, KDE, and several additional
> non-open-source packages which are available in other Linux products."
> 
> Qt isn't (L)GPL (as in "defined by the FSF") and KDE won't run w/o it, but
> KDE and Qt _are_ OpenSource.  I see their point, but perhaps they should be a
> little more careful with their wording.
> 
Yep, they mix open source and free software, which is wrong in that
context.

Greetings, Stephan

-- 
As long as Linux remains a religion of freeware fanatics,
Microsoft have nothing to worry about.  
                       By Michael Surkan, PC Week Online

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