Re: Will KDE2 be in woody?

[Kjetil Ødegaard]

* Mike Cook
|
| I read that the beta relaese og kde2 was released the other day, so
| I typed apt-get install kdebase to see if there were debian packages for
| it. Here's the message I got:
| 
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
| Note, selecting kdebase-cvs instead of kdebase
| Package kdebase-cvs has no available version, but exists in the
| database.
| This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
| never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
| 
| of sources.list
| E: Package kdebase-cvs has no installation candidate
| 
| Does this mean that it is a work in progress? If so when will it be
| available?

it probably means that the package is obsolete; IIRC, there were KDE
.debs before the licensing issues were brought up. (the QT license is
not considered a `free license' by the Debian project, so it cannot be
included in Debian.)

-- 
Undefined behaviour is socially irresponsible.

-- Richard Heathfield, comp.lang.c, 2000-05-12

Re: Will KDE2 be in woody?

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:44:55 +0200, Kjetil Ødegaard wrote:
 it probably means that the package is obsolete; IIRC, there were KDE .debs
 before the licensing issues were brought up. (the QT license is not
 considered a `free license' by the Debian project, so it cannot be
 included in Debian.)

The licensing issue is more subtle than that; see
http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 .

The essence of the licensing issue is the incompatibility between KDE's
license (the GPL) and Qt's license (be it the non-free license for Qt1 or
the free QPL for Qt2).

Ray
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