Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
Do you mean bundled together? You can certainly do that. A copyright
license cannot outright restrict mere bundles of unrelated components.
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.
Not true as has been indicated many times to you before. Look at
Freespire for example. They have patent licenses and include proprietary
codecs for gratis.
Rahul
