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Re: [Fwd: is kde enough free?]

Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi>
> Maybe there are also other reasons that make kde out-of-debian-sight?

I don't think that is necessary. We are taking pro-active action, that is
much better.

From: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
> but our DFSG contains no rule about using non-free licences, so there is
> no "free software, lower class". 

You are overlooking something.
Paragraph 1 of the social contract states that Debian will remain 100%
free software. If you need a non-free component to run something, in its
run-able form it's not "100% free", is it? We wrote the recent revision
to the role of "contrib" into the policy manual to address this.

> btw : i don't know, but i hope gnome is free. i didn't check :-)

GPL and LGPL. They show a strong dedication to being 100% free and a
perception that they are setting right a problem that exists in KDE.

> giflib is non-free (gif patent ...), so kde is contrib. i hope that
> gnome doesn't have gif routines, or does not depend on a package with
> gif* routines.

Welch's improvement to Lempel-Ziv is in the compression, not the
decompression step. If you can build a GIF-reading-only library,
it can go in main.

	Bruce
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