[repost: original sent on 27th.April, but had problems getting through] In a message dated 23/04/99 19:09:17, Steve Dunham wrote:
> Rick Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is KDE 1.1 available for debian/sparc? If so, where can one get the >> packages? > > I don't even think it's available for i386 at the moment. Aside from > not being free, it's not entirely clear whether it is legal to > distribute or not. My understanding is that it's completely legal to distribute, due to the Qt authors having announced an "open" style license (disagree ?). I think the issue is that the new license conditions don't quite tally with Debian's definition of "free". > Even if there were i386 packages, there probably wouldn't be any sparc > packages because of lack of resources and interest. (The sparc people > are busy compiling other things.) What - like X and Gnome ? I appreciate that the Sparc people are mucho busy, but I think there would be a *lot* of interest in KDE-for-Sparc. In particular, we'd be interested, as we run a Sparcstation 20 under Redhat-sparc 4.2 at work, and need to update to a more up-to-date Linux. I'm *really* hoping it will provide KDE for Sparc. The RH6.0 announcement does mention both KDE and Gnome. Of course, if Sparc Slink were production-ready, I'd rather go with that (that's why I read this list), but it doesn't seem to be. Am I wrong ? I don't have the skills to help out, so I'm afraid I'm just lurking here. > There are, however, some gnome 1.0 packages, which took a bit of > effort to compile. I encourage everyone .. [snip] Everyone seems to be saying Gnome 1.0 has been a bit premature ... Not being a tad partisan here are we ? Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK
