"user friendliest" Linux distro

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:

> > Mandrake is fully GPL by choice.
>
> Hum?  Did they drop out all of the software under other licenses?  If
> they did, then you wouldn't have GNOME (much of it under the LGPL, which
> is not the GPL), Apache (which has its own non-GPL license), Perl or
> Python (with still other licenses), XFree86 (licensed under a variation
> of the BSD license).
>
> I wasn't aware that there was any Linux distribution that could strip
> out all of the non-GPLed components so as to be able to be called "fully
> GPL."

    The basic Mandrake distribution is released under free licences,
    as defined by the FSF; they are not necessarily all GPL. There is
    also the "contrib" section which may be under slightly less free
    licences.

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