Les Mikesell wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >>> if competitors were allowed to use components from Linux in >>> commercial offerings >> >> They are. > > Not in the general case. It would be unfeasible if not technically > impossible to ship a Linux based OS containing licensed copies of all > the components needed to match the functionality of commercial OS versions. I don't believe it. What on Earth is to stop anyone from shipping a Linux based OS containing licensed copies of everything needed? I suppose you might argue that device drivers with binary-only licences are needed, but that's a bit of a stretch. Anybody can replace all of userland with proprietary licensed alternatives if they wish. It would be an odd thing to do, but certainly neither unfeasible nor impossible. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
