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

[Nate Duehr]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> 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.

Great point.  You'd think so, wouldn't you?

I smell RMS's influence somewhere in this whole thing... but haven't 
wanted to go sniffing around in earnest... just a whiff on the wind, as 
they say.

Nate