summary of firstboot and EULA changes in Fedora 7

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu May 17 21:06:14 UTC 2007


Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 17, 2007, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
>> or modifying this code.
> 
> Not quite.  Even the most liberal Free Software licenses establish a
> few restrictions on modifications you can make, such as not granting
> permission to remove or modify the license and the copyright notices.
> In particular, the GPLv2 itself does, so this statement is
> inconsistent with the license in the paragraph before it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the GPL (and I think all the other common 
cases) puts a restriction on distribution, not on modification.  You can 
take the copyright notices out all you like as long as you never pass 
the code along.

-- 
   Peter




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