[Fedora-legal-list] Re: About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:49:07PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
>>On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like they're distributing some source code. Are there specific
>>> areas of concern?
>>
>>According to the website, the software requires activation and payment
>>to use it beyond 30 days. My main concern was that this *may* run
>>afoul of section 6 of GPLv3 if there's any GPLv3 licensed software in
>>there, but IANAL and that language is sort of murky to me.
>
> And why is that Fedora's concern?  That would be linux-xp's violation,
> no?
>
> josh

Basically, a random web user reported that Linux XP was a derivative
of Fedora, was not providing code, thereby violating the GPL.

What you are seeing, is part of a seemingly ongoing, casual attempt to
investigate the report for any validity before it is/was passed on to
legal.

I personally don't think this is a big issue, but just assisted a bit
in the collection of data so that someone who cares and is responsible
can decided wether this warrants a proper investigation.

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