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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 1998 01:25:43 +0200
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPL kills KDE distribution
Message-ID:  <19981009012543.A22607@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810082114.OAA00692@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:14:10PM -0700
References:  <199810082114.OAA00692@dingo.cdrom.com>

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In <199810082114.OAA00692@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith wrote: 
> 
> Note that this means that we *cannot* ship KDE components as packages:
> 
> http://www.linuxtoday.com/story.pl?sn=158
> 
> Chalk one up to the GPL really screwing things up.  8(

The readhat folks came to the same conclusion a few weeks ago and
announced they will not ship KDE in the future. slashdot.org carries
the story.

Martin
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