[Fedora-marketing-list] Derivate distributions and GPL
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Jul 16 12:29:33 UTC 2006
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:36:28PM +0530, Rahul wrote:
> "The article revealed that many distributions' maintainers were
> erroneously assuming that they did not need to provide source
> repositories for packages they did not modify, so long as the original
> upstream distribution did provide the source code. This responsibility
> is by no means new, but seems to have been widely overlooked. David
I'm kind of shocked that anyone with the skills to maintain a derivative
distribution wasn't aware of the basics of the GPL.
> Needless to say, a better working arrangement with derivative
> distributions is pretty important for Fedora. We have a number of Fedora
> derivatives out there that could be doing interesting modifications that
> we need to look at.
And we need to do a better job feeding back to Fedora. There's just so
little time!
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