'GPL encumbrance problems'

[Andy Green]

Mike McCarty wrote:

>>> (And maybe lose some of the GPL encumbrance problems.)

>> I didn't really understand what you meant by this.

> FreeBSD is distributed, not under the GPL license. GPL

Yes I am reasonably aware of the two licenses.  But in the case of
Fedora, what are the "GPL encumbrance" problems to a normal user?  The
lack of patented codecs?  Sounds like any commercial enterprise would
have to take care in that direction GPL compatability problems or no.

-Andy
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