Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> I'm claiming nothing except what the GPL explicitly states.

Let's drive down to a specific thing that you claimed.

"So, whatever number of software patents exist, plus the number of 
things where the code with a non-GPL copyright is the best version - 
that is the number of things that Microsoft can include by making 
suitable licensing arrangements, and doing so is what keeps them in 
business. The only way a product that includes GPL'd code can contain 
any of those things is if someone buys the right to allow unlimited free 
redistribution and there is no practical way for many users to share the 
cost of that. "

Freespire is a product which includes GPL'ed code and certainly has 
patent licensed components within the product which did not require the 
patent licensee to allow unlimited free distribution. Either refute the 
clear cut example or accept that what you said is simply not true.

Rahul