Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 03:38:22 UTC 2008
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> 2. You may [...] provided that you also meet all of these conditions
>
>> There's no room to interpret that as saying "or some other license
>> you found on some web page"
>
> There's no denying of this possibility, and there couldn't be.
> Welcome to the world of copyright. Seriously, do us all a favor, and
> go talk to a lawyer. Ask the FSF.
The FSF has gone so far as to say that not only does everything included
in the work as a whole when distributed together have to be covered by
the GPL, by also anything that might conceivable be connected to create
a derived work, such as a library distributed separately.
> Read SFLC's position paper.
Only the specific copyright owner's position would matter.
> Please stop spreading misinformation.
That's funny - remember this post is in response to my exact quote of
the license section 2b. Do you really consider what the license
actually say as misinformation?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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