Free Software audit update

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Aug 21 12:42:09 UTC 2006


On Monday 21 August 2006 02:51, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > To quote the opengroups motif faq (linked above) on this:
> > "Open Motif source code and binaries can be distributed royalty free
> > under The Open Group Public License as long as the operating system upon
> > which Open Motif is running meets the OSI's Open Source Definition"
>
> 1. Fedora is based on the OSI-definition itself => Non-issue

Fedora doesn't just care about Distributable.  We care about REdistributable.  
This is why we don't include "free" things that are distributable such as 
certain Fluendo plugins.  We care deeply about being able to redistribute 
Fedora and Fedora derivatives.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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