Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 01:59:12 UTC 2008


Peter Gordon wrote:
> 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?...

You mean where it says, for example, that Linux and OpenSolaris can 
share the best of their features?  No, I missed that part.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com







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