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

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 16:51:32 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:49:07PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Looks like they're distributing some source code. Are there specific
>> areas of concern?
>
>According to the website, the software requires activation and payment
>to use it beyond 30 days. My main concern was that this *may* run
>afoul of section 6 of GPLv3 if there's any GPLv3 licensed software in
>there, but IANAL and that language is sort of murky to me.

And why is that Fedora's concern?  That would be linux-xp's violation,
no?

josh




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