Re: Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:38:01AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
And unfortunately, even though I suspect that many people would very much like a legal distribution based on Linux that could include all the parts necessary to be a viable competitor to Microsoft, the GPL will always prevent it from happening.

That's a funny place to put the blame.


Sometimes the truth is funny... By design, there is no legal way to distribute a combination of GPL'd code and anything with different restrictions. 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.

--
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx


[Index of Archives]     [Current Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux