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Re: Lehmann should decide (was Re: giving money to gnome)

"Colin R. Telmer" <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca> writes:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:

> > KDE people have a good reason to be insulted, since we are getting money
> > from JF Lehmann for a *KDE* CD that just happens to have a Debian
> > distribution on there as well. And now we are giving money, that we
> > wouldn't get without KDE to KDEs competitor -- and we're doing this
> > stating that we want to support a free toolkit (GTK).

> First, thanks for the information. However, the problem now seems to stem
> from Lehmann - we are getting the money due to (in most part) a KDE CD so
> in some sense KDE is generating this dividend for debian. So (in my view)
> the problem is not Debian's - Lehmann should divide the donation
> accordingly (I'm am not stating how, just that if we are in some sense
> free riders, then perhaps KDE should get a larger share of the overall
> donation).

In another sense, we are getting money because there is a copy of
Debian Linux on that disk.  If they sold a disk with with windows95
and Debian Linux on it, and gave us a few bucks because Debian Linux
is on it, would we have to refrain from using the money to develop
free software that has similar functionality to Windows 95?

Lehmann is giving part of it to KDE.  If a large percentage of Debian
developers feel strongly against putting the money towards the
development of free software that Debian badly needs, then we should
refuse the money and let Lehmann's give it to KDE.


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu


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