Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer have access to
> Debianized packages of this non-free software? These packages would simply
> have to be managed outside of the official Debian infrastructure.
Note the _have to_ above.
Who will do this?
> It does
> not have to be a commercial operation. I use LyX a lot. I also use a lot
> of other software packages that are not DFSG-free. However, LyX will
> eventually be GPL clean when it can link against GTK.
Or when XForms goes DFSG-compliant.
But there's already something missing. What about next year's
great tool that we don't have a free replacement for?
> Other packages may
> follow suit because the developers want to be included inside Debian.
Why will this change?
> Also, it is likely that KDE 2.X will be included in main as well.
Insider information? What makes you say this?
Have the KDE people indicated they would modify the license?
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