GPL compliance

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Fri Jun 30 06:15:40 UTC 2006


Daniel Carrera wrote:

> That's why I use a distribution that includes only free software. And
> these are not "magic" statements. This is section 3 of the GPL.

I think you miss an important point here - Ubuntu does not *only*
contain software which is licensed under GPL, but also under other
free licenses. But it is conceivable, that those licenses are only
free to Canonical but that they might prohibit a further distribution.

Alexander Skwar
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