wine users - Feb 2002 - Wine, the GPL, and Lindows

Malcolm Scott <newsgroups1_m@lcolm.NOSPAM.org.uk> writes:
> Sorry! I had assumed that, because it was free and for Linux, that it
> was GPL :-( I'll be more careful in the future...
Actually, most ostensibly "Linux" distributions contain *large*
amounts of software that is under various licenses other than the GPL.
University licenses especially, and particularly the BSD and MIT ones,
are common.  These days I imagine it may be theoretically possible to
assemble a fully-operative distribution with all the usual features
using only GPL/LGPLed software, but I don't know that anyone has done
so to date.

I am not positive, but I believe the debian distro has tight rules in this 
regard, an it is possible to only use 'free' software.

Phil





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Malcolm Scott <newsgroups1_m@lcolm.NOSPAM.org.uk> writes:
> Sorry! I had assumed that, because it was free and for Linux, that it
> was GPL :-( I'll be more careful in the future...
Actually, most ostensibly "Linux" distributions contain *large*
amounts of software that is under various licenses other than the GPL.
University licenses especially, and particularly the BSD and MIT ones,
are common.  These days I imagine it may be theoretically possible to
assemble a fully-operative distribution with all the usual features
using only GPL/LGPLed software, but I don't know that anyone has done
so to date. 


 
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