Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

[Steve Underwood]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:55:18 -0700 (PDT)
> Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>>> ZFS was included in FreeBSD 7.0 because the BSD
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>>> license is more free than the GPL with that regard.
>>>
>>> And if NetApp win against Sun they can sue FreeBSD now, for
>>> triple
>>> damages which would be millions and the end of FreeBSD.
>>>       
>> That is a big IF, maybe it should be an iff (IF and ONLY IF) like in Mathematics.  :)
>>     
>
> A big if but rather a nasty consequence, and unlike FreeBSD the Linux
> companies have enough money that people do try lawsuits.
>
>   
>> They(FreeBSD) should be protected, the users can get the ports from source, they do not ship binaries(except the installation *.tbz files).  
>>     
>
> That makes no difference to US patent law.
>   
Its the same with anyone else's patent law, too. Shipping things as a 
kit of parts never successfully circumvented any patent laws.

Steve