Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 30, 2005 01:40 AM
Though I cannot, of course speak for him in any way...
Aside from the inclusion of things like win4lin in the TAFusion version, he is of course free to license his stuff with the GPL. Infortunately, IMO, his HW detection, installation 'wizard' and the OS Center are not only what distinguishes it from other installable LiveCD distros, they are also good enought that they would also be incorporated into other projects immediately - thus cancelling out the business advantage he has. I'd like to see him release these things as GPL on his free (as in beer) versions at least. Heck, since he charges for access to the ftp site where the newest versions can be downloaded, he could do that pretty easily; maintaining two versions and releasing the older stuff to GPL for every new iteration of the distro
He is NOT contradicting the letter or the spirit (whatever that may be - are you trying to be 'deliberately ambiguous'?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-) ) simply by publishing software that is NOT GPLed along with software that is. Show me where he has violated the GPL. Show me binaries without available source that are GPLed in his distro. Perhaps using the Debian repositories are what violate the GPL? You'd better be talking about Kanotix, Knoppix, etc. then as well.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 30, 2005 01:40 AM#