Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Nov 15 22:49:24 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28:33PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote:
> Dne 15.11.2010 22:31, Matthew Garrett napsal(a):
> > Further, what's the licensing situation here? If I have an application
> > that (at runtime) is a mixture of GPLed and GPL-incompatible code, does
> > sending this coredump to a remote service count as distribution?
> 
> Interesting point. I do not know.
> 
> What is the scope of this question? Can GPLed and GPL-incompatible code 
> end up in the same coredump in Fedora installation without 3rd party 
> software installed?

It was reasonably likely in X until Synaptics got relicensed. I think 
we're fairly safe from a stock install point of view.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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