Posted by maqifrnswa on Jan 21, 2013; 10:33pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/original-icons-tp5707470p5707473.html

> [1] Unfortunately, Debian also deleted the (perfectly working) QCad 2
> from Squeeze!! I of course understand that they removed it from Wheezy,
> since Wheezy does not contain Qt3 anymore. But I will never understand why
> they also removed it from *stable* (Squeeze), although it was perfectly
> working, and so intentionally broke working installations.... *wtf?*
> Such behaviour would be a good reason to use a different distribution...

Debian wasn't legally allowed to distribute QCad anymore, while the
source code was GPL-2, the documentation (and the icons for all we can
tell) are not. The author requested that we respect his copyright, so
they were removed.

More info:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/10/msg00009.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qcad/+bug/954994

You're right, it was removed from Wheezy because there are no more QT3
libraries.

Regarding icons, I think LibreCAD would like to be "skinable" with
users contributing icons. However, it's a lower priority for the core
developers although they'd accept patches.

~Scott