Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Wed Jun 18 18:05:43 UTC 2008


On Jun 17, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> If it's silly, then you shouldn't have any problem showing where it is
> executed as part of "the Program",

Execution is irrelevant, because copyright law doesn't apply to this
act.

It is *distributed* as part of the program, and that's what copyright
law restricts by default.  And it's distributed as inseparable part of
the program while at that.

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