About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> CREOtiv wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>  This guys http://www.linux-xp.ru/ selling linux for money. It based on
>> Fedora Core. So their actions break copyrights and the GPL licence of Fedora
>> Linux.
>> You must do something.
>
> You seem to be misinterpreting the GPL license. Read the primer. Also refer
>
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
>
> Linux XP as a derivative distribution of Fedora is very well free to sell
> copies of it as long as they satisfy the other requirements of the license
> such as providing the source code.
>
> Rahul


For the curious:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux-xp.ru%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ru&tl=en

I haven't seen source code nor Fedora yet. But one would have to
purchase a copy to verify.
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