grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Feb 15 02:31:34 UTC 2005


On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:25:46PM -0800, Denis Leroy wrote:
> So why couldn't the Fedora project ask Fraunhofer (a german company, 
> btw, so all this talk about 'Mandrake is a french company and not 
> affected by patent law' seems rather weak) for permission ?

Fedora is a free software project. Note that the Fraunhofer comment was about
free (as in beer) not free as in price. So again we'd screw all the people who
build things on Fedora or make CD images.

Alan




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