On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:45:23PM +1300, Jason Greenwood wrote:
> Sorry, I should have been more specific and said GPL....most of the 
> other "Open Source" licenses don't guarantee full software freedom like 
> the GPL. Suse produces software that is not GPL'd, EVERYTHING Mandrake 
> (and AFAIK Debian too) produces is GPL'd, that's why I'd prefer it over 
> Suse, simple as that.

Incorrect. Mozilla? QT? Perl? these things are not covered by the GPL.
Debian distributes software that meets the Debian Free Software Guidelines:

Bottom of: http://www.debian.org/social_contract

Mike.
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