[fab] Free software and Fedora: Dissected

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 17:13 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> Updated Document:
> 
> I am in the process of analyzing the packages currently in Fedora Core
> Development to see whether it is possible/feasible to have Fedora Core
> exist as a 100% free distribution (by the FSF guidelines).

On IRC, someone claimed that gnuplot was not FSF clean (but is OSI
approved) because it requires the upstream tarball to be pristine;
changes to the source have to be distributed as patches.  Have you
checked its license?

http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/gnuplot/gnuplot/Copyright?view=markup

-Toshio
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