Novell could be banned from selling Linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 14:37:38 -0500
"Kristian Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/4/07, Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:
> > Right.  But that's a distinction that's hard to explain to journalists.  To
> > the journalists defense, many people lump everything that comes with a
> > distribution as "Linux", since the kernel by itself isn't that useful.
> 
> So could Novell jump into the OpenSolaris market or not according to
> proposed actions by the FSF?
The issue here is that Linux (the Linux Kernel as well as many of the
tools) is released under the GPL. I seriously doubt that the FSF is
ever going to try to block Novell, but they may be able to force Novell
to amend that agreement. 


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