Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You were told about the problems earlier on too and you choose to ignore
it. CDDL was deliberately designed to be incompatible with GPL

Deliberate? _Everything_ that is not the GPL is incompatible with the GPL.

For a list of dozens of examples showing this statement to be utterly wrong see

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

John

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