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Re: Possible violation of license(s) on debian derivative



On Sun, 07 Mar 2010, Etenil wrote:
> I contact you regarding a possible breach of the terms of at least
> the GPL license on the Etch-based distribution Elive.
> 
> http://www.elivecd.org/Help/License
> 
> As you can see in the above link, the distribution is licensed under
> CC-by-NC-SA 2.0, which forbids commercial use of the distribution.
> This licensed is not recognised as free by the FSF and is not
> compatible with the GPL.

They appear to have already fixed the license statement to the correct
one, which seems to have resolved this problem.
 

Don Armstrong

-- 
There is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly
pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the
young author through mental contact with type metal.
 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Tilton 1947 p67)

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