[Fedora-legal-list] Re: About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:49:07PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like they're distributing some source code. Are there specific
>>> areas of concern?
>> According to the website, the software requires activation and payment
>> to use it beyond 30 days. My main concern was that this *may* run
>> afoul of section 6 of GPLv3 if there's any GPLv3 licensed software in
>> there, but IANAL and that language is sort of murky to me.
> 
> And why is that Fedora's concern?  That would be linux-xp's violation,
> no?

If a derivative distribution is violating the licenses collectively, it 
is also misusing the work done within Fedora. That should make it our 
concern as well, I would think.

Rahul