Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> So works licenced under the GPL can not be used to create derivative
> works if the resulting work is not also under the GPL, even if the GPL
> licenced part was the substantially smaller contributor to the whole?

This is correct and by design. FSF explains the general idea behind this at

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/

If you like even simpler terminology, Creative Commons has a explanation

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/

Creative Commons Attribute Share Alike is similar to GPL but for content

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

Rahul