question about RedHat/Fedora and the GPL

condition terminal conditionterminal at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 06:41:08 UTC 2005


On 6/8/05, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/7/05, condition terminal <conditionterminal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > if people do agree that it is a something worth
> > taking to the RH legal team, then I will do so.
> I think most people in this thread have already reached consensous on
> this issue. I don't think its the outcome you personally want however.
>  But since you seem to want to keep count, I also do not think its
> worth it. I think at this point the community is better served by
> everyone doing what they can to help seth and others create a
> buildsystem that is useful for a larger community build environment.
> 
> -jef"has a pretty strong gut feeling the fsf would have already
> approached redhat quietly about any compliance issues and worked to
> correct any license violating behavior if there were any
> present"spaleta
> 

So ignore a potentional violation because someone else is planning to
do the same thing, but better?

Thats an interesting view point on possible GPL violations. 

ta




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