Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Les Mikesell]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:38:01AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> And unfortunately, even though I suspect that many people would very 
>> much like a legal distribution based on Linux that could include all the 
>> parts necessary to be a viable competitor to Microsoft, the GPL will 
>> always prevent it from happening.
> 
> That's a funny place to put the blame.
> 

Sometimes the truth is funny... By design, there is no legal way to 
distribute a combination of GPL'd code and anything with different 
restrictions.  So, whatever number of software patents exist, plus the 
number of things where the code with a non-GPL copyright is the best 
version - that is the number of things that Microsoft can include by 
making suitable licensing arrangements, and doing so is what keeps them 
in business.   The only way a product that includes GPL'd code can 
contain any of those things is if someone buys the right to allow 
unlimited free redistribution and there is no practical way for many 
users to share the cost of that.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com