About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

[Giulio Fidente]

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Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jon Stanley wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram
>> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>> There is no need to translate. Refer http://www.linux-xp.com/. I haven't
>>> looked for source code.
>>
>> Interesting.  I tried the "Buy Now" and "Download Now" links on the
>> English version of the site and got nowhere. I do notice mention that
>> I have to register in order to use the product beyond a 30-day
>> evaluation period. I *think* that this may be an issue under GPLv3
>> section 6, if there is any GPLv3 software in the distro, which cannot
>> obviously be determined without a copy of it.
> 
> This is a Russian organization. I doubt we want to waste money trying to
> get a hold of this product to hunt down whether the restrictions on the
> end product is evasive of any specific license within. Wikipedia article
> states that they do not respond to email. It doesn't appear to have made
> any new releases and seems to be dead.

btw it is availabe for download at:

ftp://downloads.linux-xp.com/pub/linux-xp/desktop/2008/international/LXPD-2008-I-INTERNATIONAL-862-i386-DVD.iso

and or

ftp://downloads.linux-xp.com/pub/linux-xp/desktop/2008/international/LXPD-2008-I-INTERNATIONAL-862-i386-DVD.iso.torrent
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