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Re: Licensed software



On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 07:39:08PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> Debian Linux is released under the GNU GPLv2. (GNU is Not Unix, General
> Public License version 2)
> Seen here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

*Parts* of Debian - important parts, indeed - are released under that
licence, but the whole thing definitely is not. In fact, some of the
components of Debian are released under licences incompatible with the
GPL (but still free).

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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