Is TDE free software

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geniusrko
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Joined: 02/13/2014

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.

muhammed
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Joined: 04/13/2013

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:

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/

Is that enough to make it free?

onpon4
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Joined: 05/30/2012

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.

lembas
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Joined: 05/13/2010

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.