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Re Requirements for building "free" software

A word of caution here: There are packages in the Debian
Distribution that require a commercial compiler to build but which are
under the GPL. Those have traditionally been considered as ok for the main
distribution. The most prominent among these is syslinux without which you
would not be able to install your Debian distribution.

I think this is just another example of ideology beginning to take over
instead of reason. Please keep things open and as free and flexible as
possible. I hate things being put into a straightjacket. Force them here,
force them there all in the name of FREEDOM! Can it get more screwy?

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:

> [moved to debian-private from debian-devel due to wish not to start
> another flame war]
> 
> Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 
> > Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
> > > So, if I write a program which needs a non-free compiler to be
> > > built, that program _cannot be free_ according to the GPL. 
> > > But do we consider it free?
> > 
> > No, we do not.  We're even stricter - you have to be able to built it
> > using packages in the Debian main distribution.
> > 
> 
> I agree.
> After the recent discussion about QT and KDE, I started to look to QT
> code to see what problems there are in cloning it, and I found that QT
> includes a compiler (more a preprocessor) used to create meta-objects,
> real c++ code to be included in the program source.
> Thus no binary package that depends on QT can be built on a _pure_
> debian machine.


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