Submitted by geniusrko on Thu, 02/13/2014 - 22:45
Is TDE free software
Thu, 02/13/2014 - 22:45
Hi
So I want to install trinity DE and it's only available as a ppa so is it a free software or not
Thanks.
Fri, 02/14/2014 - 00:08
#1
This page says it's GPL
https://launchpad.net/trinity-desktop
This one says it's free software
http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
The Contributors tab at the second website lists some mirrors. If you dig down in the first mirror (and probably the others) there are sources:
Is that enough to make it free?
Fri, 02/14/2014 - 01:36
#2
Trinity is a fork of KDE 3.5, so unless there were proprietary components in that version of KDE, there ought to not be any proprietary components in Trinity.
Fri, 02/14/2014 - 07:33
#3
They seem to have live CDs available. Other than the Debian based probably have the vanilla Linux kernel with non-free blobs and all.
Besides that it's probably clean.