Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

[Gordon Messmer]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>>
>> Maybe that is because you are looking at it as a developer, and not as 
>> an end user. It is the freedom of the end users that is being preserved.
> 
> No, that is exactly backwards.  Since the GPL only prohibits 
> redistribution

The GPL does not prohibit redistribution.  Copyright law does that.

The GPL does not, in fact, prohibit much of anything.  It is a license 
that allows redistribution under specific terms.