About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 10 21:19:53 UTC 2008


CREOtiv wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> This guys http://www.linux-xp.ru/ selling linux for money. It based on 
> Fedora Core. So their actions break copyrights and the GPL licence of 
> Fedora Linux.
> You must do something.

You seem to be misinterpreting the GPL license. Read the primer. Also refer

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Linux XP as a derivative distribution of Fedora is very well free to 
sell copies of it as long as they satisfy the other requirements of the 
license such as providing the source code.

Rahul




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