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

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 15:46:59 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 17:30 +0200, Giulio Fidente wrote:
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> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 20:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>
> >>> CC'ing fedora-legal list.
> >>
> >> Well, that's an awful lot of content without much context. Care to
> >> explain what the legal concern is?
> > 
> > Linux-XP is a Fedora derived distribution and we got a mail to the
> > webmaster's id (fedora-websites list) that this distribution is
> > violating the GPL license by not distributing source code.
> 
> exploring the ftp I found this:
> 
> ftp://downloads.linux-xp.com/pub/sources_and_patches/SRPMS/

Looks like they're distributing some source code. Are there specific
areas of concern?

~spot




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