From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 8 16:27:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18068 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17934 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:26:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.7.3) id BAA22615; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 01:25:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19981009012543.A22607@cons.org> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 01:25:43 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: Mike Smith , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL kills KDE distribution References: <199810082114.OAA00692@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199810082114.OAA00692@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:14:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message