Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.  

Do you mean bundled together? You can certainly do that. A copyright 
license cannot outright restrict mere bundles of unrelated components.

  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.

Not true as has been indicated many times to you before. Look at 
Freespire for example. They have patent licenses and include proprietary 
codecs for gratis.

Rahul