On Monday 09 May 2005 15:23, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
> Of course, you could add some Free Software in your distribution too -
> but you can't add GPL-licensed stuff (and GPL is the most common OSS
> license). If you do add GPL stuff, you'll have to make all the other
> stuff open source too - so the commercial parts are out - you can't
> supply Office & Windows.
While I completely agree with you analysis about the benefits of
Linux software distribution and package management, your last
point is incorrect -- from GPL:
"In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on
the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the
Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium
does not bring the other work under the scope of this License."
Of course, anybody doing this will still have to comply with the
GPL on the relevant software.
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