On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:08:57AM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote: > Brad wrote: > > > You do realize that if gif support were in the main gimp package, then > > the entire thing would have to go into nonfree, right? Since The Gimp is > > GPLed, Debian has every right to remove gif support and redistribute those > > sources to make the whole thing libre. If you really don't like that, > > you're free to go download the sources and compile them for yourself. > > I realize that Brad. Debian should rename 'the gimp' to > 'debian gimp' when they take the legitimate liberty of > modifying gpl software. And I did that: I fetched the > pristine gimp from the gimp site.
I think it is a bad idea to call it `debian gimp'. If you do that you suggest that debian has a heavily modified, enhanced version of gimp. If I were one of the gimp developers I wouldn't like it if someone (say Corel) would take it, remove some plugins, and then tack their name on it (`Corel gimp'??). Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
