Fedora's advice on GPL compliance
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| Giving out CDs/DVDs
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| The Fedora Project Board wants our project to remain in
| compliance with Free and Open Source Software licenses. We also
| want to make sure our Ambassadors are properly following those
| licenses when they distribute Fedora. By making sure we are
| meeting our obligations under these licenses, we protect Fedora
| and all its contributors, including you, our Ambassadors.
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| The Board asks you to do the following at events where
| you hand out CDs or DVDs of Fedora:
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| 1) Let people know that source code for everything on the
| CDs/DVDs is available for download from fedoraproject.org.
| Place at least a simple piece of paper on the table at the
| booth, which states:
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| Source Code available on http://fedoraproject.org. Physical
| media with source code available upon request.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/274000/
Comments on 2 days of reading
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| Needless to say how many Linux distros are still not making the sources
| available in any way (and not for the past 3 years, when they have such an
| age), or how some are choosing to charge an exaggerate fee for the sources
| media (think of MEPIS), while strongly discouraging the users to ask for the
| sources!
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/03/21/09/25/59-comments-on-2-days-of-reading
Video: JBoss World wrap-up
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| Miss out on JBoss World in Orlando? Or are you still wondering how JBoss and
| middleware fit into the bigger picture? These and more curiousities are
| answered in our summary video. And if you’re wondering what the new CEO’s
| like, you can catch him here as well.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/03/19/video-jboss-world-wrap-up/
Related:
Novell's "Mixed Source" Announcement
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| This whole Novell-Microsoft saga to me was kind of like a hostile
| takeover of GPL code, or an attempt at it, to neuter it so as to
| make that code go more proprietary whether it wants to or not.
| Folks who like the proprietary ways better and didn't much like
| the GPL, or don't understand its value, thought the license
| doesn't mean what it says or that they could get cute with it
| and make oodles and boodles of money by selling code that
| belongs to other people in ways those authors told them in
| their license they don't like.
|
| Well, the GPL does mean what it says. And if you steal the
| Golden Egg and in so doing kill the Golden Goose that laid
| it, what have you accomplished? The development method that
| makes the code so much better is the Golden Goose, and the
| GPL is central to the health of that Goose. I suppose that
| is why Microsoft wants to get it neutered or eaten for
| dinner, but why would anyone else help them, particularly
| someone selling or wanting to buy Linux? You cut off your
| own future, or make it subject to Microsoft's whims.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070606120901152
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