Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jul 20 17:36:10 UTC 2008
Anders Karlsson wrote:
>
> Just so that I understand this right.
>
> Any license which will permit being replaced by the GPL, when the
> software it covers is combined with software under the GPL - is
> compatible with the GPL?
Anyone except the copyright holder cannot replace the terms of the
license. If I developed software and licensed it using any of the
licenses compatible with the GPL, that original software stays under the
license I released forever. Software Freedom Law Center published a
paper describing the effect of combining BSD and GPL license if you are
interested in the details
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html
Note that the specific details maybe dependent on the copyright laws of
your region too.
Rahul
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