Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Mon Jul 21 00:21:12 UTC 2008
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.
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