[Fedora-legal-list] Re: About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Giulio Fidente wrote:
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> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Jon Stanley wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram
>>> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>>>> There is no need to translate. Refer http://www.linux-xp.com/. I haven't
>>>> looked for source code.
>>> Interesting.  I tried the "Buy Now" and "Download Now" links on the
>>> English version of the site and got nowhere. I do notice mention that
>>> I have to register in order to use the product beyond a 30-day
>>> evaluation period. I *think* that this may be an issue under GPLv3
>>> section 6, if there is any GPLv3 software in the distro, which cannot
>>> obviously be determined without a copy of it.
>> This is a Russian organization. I doubt we want to waste money trying to
>> get a hold of this product to hunt down whether the restrictions on the
>> end product is evasive of any specific license within. Wikipedia article
>> states that they do not respond to email. It doesn't appear to have made
>> any new releases and seems to be dead.
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> btw it is availabe for download at:
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> ftp://downloads.linux-xp.com/pub/linux-xp/desktop/2008/international/LXPD-2008-I-INTERNATIONAL-862-i386-DVD.iso
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> and or
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> ftp://downloads.linux-xp.com/pub/linux-xp/desktop/2008/international/LXPD-2008-I-INTERNATIONAL-862-i386-DVD.iso.torrent

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Rahul