Re: What next?

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Denis Leroy <denis poolshark org> said:
> otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License...". The whole 
> point here would be to get Fraunhofer to give 'written promise' to not sue 
> the newly founded non-profit Fedora Foundation, then there will not be any 
> 'court judgments' or 'allegations' to speak of that would bother the GPL... 

Read the rest of that section of the GPL:

    For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free
    redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies
    directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could
    satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from
    distribution of the Program.

So if Fraunhofer allows any GPL distribution, anyone can take that code
(or a derived work) and distribute it under the terms of the GPL (which
means that Red Hat or TiVo for example can sell it without paying
license feeds to Fraunhofer).  Under the terms of the GPL, Fraunhofer
cannot allow free/non-commercial distribution and restrict commercial
distribution of the same code.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.