[fab] Free software and Fedora: Dissected

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 15:30 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 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

David Turner (@ FSF) says it is fine, and we're in compliance with the
license as it is written.

~spot
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