Re: Gnome Web Browser

[robert havoc pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Martin Baulig wrote:
> 
> There may be some problem with mozilla - or with its license - AFAIK it's
> not compatible with the GPL - and GNOME is a desktop environment that consists
> entirely of *free* software - here, we should interpret *free* software the way 
> the FSF does (ie distributed under the GPL).
>

This is not what the FSF means by free. They mean the Debian or Open
Source guidelines, just as most others do. GPL is only a means to
freeness.
 
> When you think we can use Mozilla within GNOME - why should we then
> make GNOME? There's already KDE - it's also 'free' software as Mozilla is
> 'free' software - but this 'free' here is not what the FSF tells us.
> 

Mozilla is free in the FSF sense, and RMS has said so. Qt is not - it
fails multiple aspects of the Debian/Open Source guidelines. See 
www.opensource.org. KDE is itself free, but it depends on Qt, so is not
usable in an all-free environment.

[Note: everyone read the DejaNews on this. It's off topic on this list.]

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