[Fedora-legal-list] Re: About breaking GPL license and copyrights on Fedora Core.

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 15 16:01:26 UTC 2008


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 17:30 +0200, Giulio Fidente wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 20:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> CC'ing fedora-legal list.
>>>> Well, that's an awful lot of content without much context. Care to
>>>> explain what the legal concern is?
>>> Linux-XP is a Fedora derived distribution and we got a mail to the
>>> webmaster's id (fedora-websites list) that this distribution is
>>> violating the GPL license by not distributing source code.
>> exploring the ftp I found this:
>>
>> ftp://downloads.linux-xp.com/pub/sources_and_patches/SRPMS/
> 
> Looks like they're distributing some source code. Are there specific
> areas of concern?

We can ask the original poster (CC'ed). The threads starts at

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2008-October/msg00044.html

Rahul




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