Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Tue Jun 17 00:31:13 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 18:42 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> It makes sense for a company selling services[...] to apply a
> restrictive license to prevent others from improving the product and
> offering it in competition.

What? The GPL doesn't prevent this. It *encourages* and *enables* it. 

Have you actually _read_ the GPL?...
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