Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:40:36 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: dan@langille.org, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any Linux distros which are not Open Source? Message-ID: <p05001902b6814368af45@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200101091131.AAA24507@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> References: <200101091131.AAA24507@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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At 12:31 AM +1300 1/10/01, Dan Langille wrote: >I'm involved in a thread on nz.comp and someone made this statement: > >"There are commercial forms of Linux that are not open source." > >That's a conflict of terms isn't it? Doesn't the GPL require that >it be open source? There are linux distros which include individual applications, where some of those applications will not be open-source. I do not see that as being overly important. Anything that has a GNU-license (such as the linux kernel itself) will have to be open-source. Not quite sure why we'd debate this on freebsd-advocacy, though. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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