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digi_owl on May 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release

Because Icaza managed to make Qt, and thus KDE, look bad over a licensing shit storm.

It is sadly really how much of Linux DE decisions have been made on political grounds.

the_why_of_y on May 26, 2017 [–]

Are you advocating that software such as Qt version 1 as of 1998 that is neither available under a license that meets the FSF's Free Software criteria nor the OSI's Open Source criteria nor Debian's DFSG should be a core part of the GNU/Linux desktop?

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