[Ambassadors] Legal Questions

Max Spevack mspevack at redhat.com
Wed Sep 13 19:36:37 UTC 2006


On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Alex Maier wrote:

> Dear Moshe!
>
> As it says on the front page of fedoraproject.org, "Fedora Core is an
> operating system and platform, based on Linux, that is always free for
> anyone to use, modify and distribute, now and forever."

As long as you don't change it.

That doesn't mean you *can't* change it.  Change it all you like.  But if 
you do change it, you just can't call it Fedora anymore, because it's now 
something else!

That's the legal requirement bit.

--Max

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