Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:28:30 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: [Off topic] Re: New Linux distribution - PSL |
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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Martin Konold wrote:
> There are numerous people inkl. me and _several_ intellectual property > lawers (two patent attorneys in this case) who strongly disagree with RMS > et al. in this special case after I did present them the license terms and > some mails from RMS. > > On the other hand I do know that RMS would hate if the developers would > switch to a BSD style license. I therefor would like to suggest that you > stop spreading the word that bundling KDE with a linux distribution is > illegal and I will try to convince the KDE people to keep the (L)GPL for > all code they are contributing to a great piece of unix sw. (You might > need it as soon as FreeQt is finished) > > Yours, > -- martin > P.S.: I do get the strong impression that the US market leader in Linux > distributions is in deep trouble if they do not manage to get a decent > desktop soon!
That would be Redhat right? I doubt they'll see much trouble. I run RedHat, and I run KDE, and I have a nice desktop. Big deal.
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