"user friendliest" Linux distro

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> 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.

And, since neither the 'base' nor the 'contrib' sections represent
software licensed exclusively under the GPL, this means that the
distribution is "fully GPL" in what sense?
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