Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jul 20 20:48:10 UTC 2008
Anders Karlsson wrote:
> So works licenced under the GPL can not be used to create derivative
> works if the resulting work is not also under the GPL, even if the GPL
> licenced part was the substantially smaller contributor to the whole?
This is correct and by design. FSF explains the general idea behind this at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
If you like even simpler terminology, Creative Commons has a explanation
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
Creative Commons Attribute Share Alike is similar to GPL but for content
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
Rahul
More information about the users
mailing list