"user friendliest" Linux distro

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

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

> > 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?

   It is "fully free", as defined by the FSF, even if not not "fully
   GPL".

   The GPL is not the only "free" licence.

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