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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    [kde-promo] KDE Promotional Discs and Freedom
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2003-05-11 22:55:24
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Forget definitions of free software, the reasons to care about software 
licensing, and all the politics arguments surrounding them.  Sure, it's 
important, but it's all irrelevant here.

To me, it comes down to this:  If individuals are going to give out discs 
in the name of KDE, the contents of those discs should be KDE-appropriate.  
KDE has certain license policies, so the contents of any KDE discs should 
roughly obey these policies.

If others want to make their own KDE demo discs that contain proprietary 
software, so be it.  The sources of the KDE disc should be available for 
anyone to amke their own modifications.  But please don't put the KDE name 
on something that is contraversial in the KDE community.  Something 
promoting KDE should be inclusive, not divisive.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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