rolling your own distro and the GPL (Re: [clue-talk] North Topic Track)

[Angelo Bertolli]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> The MEPIS creator has always said "my distro builds off of Debian, 
> here's the changes" but that's not considered "good enough" under the 
> GPL according to FSF.  He's being gracious about it, but as a complete 
> outsider I can laugh and point at FSF's stupidity with little regard 
> for what they think of little ol' me.
Isn't that Debian's call though?  It's up to Debian to allow for 
interpretation and enforcement of the license.