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No good deed goes unpunished...
No good deed goes unpunished...
Posted Mar 19, 2008 19:05 UTC (Wed) by linville (subscriber, #31482)Parent article: Fedora's advice on GPL compliance
It is sad to think that handing-out LiveCDs could result in a legal problem for anyone.
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No good deed goes unpunished...
Posted Mar 19, 2008 19:21 UTC (Wed) by armijn (guest, #3653) [Link]
Why is this punishment? The GPL is pretty much agnostic with regards to commercial/non-commercial. If you distribute GPL licensed software (even by handing out live CDs), you have to adhere to the license, it's as simple as that.
No good deed goes unpunished...
Posted Mar 19, 2008 21:03 UTC (Wed) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link]
It's better than the alternative: that a redistributor of GPL work thinks the rules of the GPL don't apply to them. Congratulations to Fedora for demonstrating that we, who want others to play by our rules, must abide by them too.