Richard Lawrence <[email protected]> writes:
> Hmm...does the first bullet point rule out the GPL (or any
> non-permissive, BSD-style license)?

No.

(Did you mean "non-BSD-style license", there?  It's hard to call (new)
BSD "non-permissive".)

> I guess the subtlety here is what counts as a
> "distribution."  I most naturally read that as "code that will be
> compiled and linked together," in which case it would rule out the
> GPL.  But I guess they must mean it in the sense of "GNU/Linux
> distribution," in which case the GPL is obviously fine.

A "distribution" is simply a aggregate collection of programs; it has
nothing to do with linking or derived works in terms of the GPL.  Your
"most natural" reading is not the accepted one. :)

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