[Fedora-marketing-list] Derivate distributions and GPL

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:36:28PM +0530, Rahul wrote:
> "The article revealed that many distributions' maintainers were 
> erroneously assuming that they did not need to provide source 
> repositories for packages they did not modify, so long as the original 
> upstream distribution did provide the source code. This responsibility 
> is by no means new, but seems to have been widely overlooked. David 

I'm kind of shocked that anyone with the skills to maintain a derivative
distribution wasn't aware of the basics of the GPL.


> Needless to say, a better working arrangement with derivative 
> distributions is pretty important for Fedora. We have a number of Fedora 
> derivatives out there that could be doing interesting modifications that 
> we need to look at.

And we need to do a better job feeding back to Fedora. There's just so
little time!

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