summary of firstboot and EULA changes in Fedora 7

[Max Spevack]

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On May 17, 2007, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> The compilation is made available under the GNU General Public
>> License version 2.
>
> I don't quite understand what this is supposed to mean.
>
> Is it correct to assume that the legal implications of this move have 
> been run through legal, and that it is not in fact a problem to 
> release under the GPL a compilation that includes both software and 
> other kinds of copyrightable works, some of which are licensed under 
> licenses that are incompatible with the GPL?  And that this doesn't 
> amount to dual-licensing logos and trademarks that are AFAIK supposed 
> to be offered under the trademark policy only, not under the GPL?
>
> If nothing else, some major clarification of what this means would be 
> in order, otherwise people might get impressions that they can do 
> things we don't mean them to do (like modifying non-Free firmware or 
> invariant sections of GFDL documents we ship, or using our logos and 
> trademarks without complying with the trademark policites).

This text was actually written by Mr. Webbink.  But I will show him your 
comments and see if there's anything in here that he things needs to 
change.

--Max

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