[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Les Mikesell]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:50 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:38:44PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> I know the FSF-definition very well. They are defining free in the sense
>>> of "open source"
>> I don't think they agree with you there, in fact Richard would probably be most
>> upset at such a claim...
> May-be, may-be not.
> 
> Fact is: The GPL's notion of freedom is essentially covering freedom on
> "source code". It's "viral" nature has has some implications on binaries
> ("make source code available to customers"), but it nowhere states that
> binaries having been built from GPL'ed sources must be "free-beer".

There is no distinction between binaries and source in regard to the 
rights recipients have to redistribute them, except for the point that 
if you distribute binaries at all you must also make the corresponding 
source available to the recipeints.

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   Les Mikesell
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