Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Sun Jul 20 08:46:07 UTC 2008


On Jul 19, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> If someone wants to go looking for binary distributions, there are
> probably some of the vmware appliances at
> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/ that haven't properly
> followed the strict GPL requirements to provide all the corresponding
> sources.

Would you please notify the copyright holders?  They're the only ones
with legal standing to do anything about it and have their wish,
encoded in the GPL, respected.

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