Sorry, had to clarify - note I said 'Produces', as in the code Mandrake writes is always GPL'd, in comparison to Suse.

Cheers

Jason

Mike Beattie wrote:
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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