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date: 2000/09/07 15:47
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title: Advogato post for 2000-09-07 15:47:02
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    Nice: 
    http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/2281/1/
    
    <p> I still say "I'll believe it when I see it", but at least I
    have SOME hopes of seing it.
    
    <p> I steel feel Debian has, in general, acted wrong in the
    past, but I will apologize and forgive. When the code is in,
    of course.
    
    <p> I wonder if this means that RMS will declare Debian to be
    non-free software, though.
    
    <p> Two more random license questions: 
    
    <p> a) if KDE code was not properly licensed, then it was not
    licensed. If it was not licensed, noone could use it. If
    noone could use it, noone could derive from it. If noone
    could derive, gtkhtml is illegal, and GNOME should be dumped
    from Debian. And GNOME should ask forgiveness?
    
    <p> b) Nautilus (and other GNOME programs) are GPL and link
    (optionally) to mozilla. Mozilla is still not compatible
    with the GPL. Shouldn't those programs be declared "not
    properly licensed" by Debian, too?
    
    <p> My answers: no and no. But neither should KDE have had to
    take as much crap when others are allowed to get away with
    it.