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Really free?

Really free?

Posted May 11, 2011 11:40 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: BackTrack 5 released by djrom
Parent article: BackTrack 5 released

Hmmm. That's worrying.

When they say "Fully open source and GPL compliant", I assumed they meant that it was "Fully open source [i.e. free software]" and that they were complying with the GPL, but the other interpretation is that they just claim that their software is fully compatible with other packages that are "open source and GPL".

Their FAQ doesn't seem to say anything about free software or licences.

Of course, truly free distros are rarer than most people think. FSF maintains a list:
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html


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