I'm not sure about the legal issues and all...but I have been keeping the kde debs uptto speed for both slink and potato. The maintainer hasn't been working on them in a while so I am working with him to get his stuff up to speed.
Currently only for i386 but I would like to be able to build this stuff on other systems (sparc) but just need a system that I (someone) is willing to install the -dev files after they are built in order to build the rest of the packages. Ivan (source files are available at http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian/dists/potato/rkrusty/source) Ivan On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 04:15:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---end quoted text--- -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ivan E. Moore II Rev. Krusty http://www.tdyc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GPG KeyID=0E1A75E3 GPG Fingerprint=3291 F65F 01C9 A4EC DD46 C6AB FBBC D7FF 0E1A 75E3 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
