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No such thing as a free Linux distro

  • ZDNet Blogs; By Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (Posted by on CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux, SUSE
A few Linux distributions emphasize license freedom as a goal, but Tom “Spot” Callaway says that there’s no such thing as a free Linux distro. Callaway, Fedora’s engineering manager, writes that “you’d need to do an incredibly thorough audit of every file in the system to be sure that every single file is under a known license,” and the evidence says that most distros haven’t actually done it.
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