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Originally Posted by enoonmai
Yup! I guess thats true.  But I dug up a bit of info and here's what I found out. Linspire is NOT totally GPLed. The Linspire site says that parts of Linspire are GPLed, the kernel, KDE, etc. but the "biggie" programs like the Click N Run Repository, fonts, Flash and Java support, spell checker, etc. are not GPL. Plus, you cannot freely redistribute Linspire. So its not technically fully GPL and yet it doesnt violate GPL laws, kind of like SuSE.  Ah, who cares, I am not going anywhere near Linspire. |
The GPL and other public licenses are valid on a single application (ifself) and are not applicable on a distribution as a whole. If one wishes to use a 100%
Free-as-in-Freedom GNU/Linux distribution then he'll be better off with Debian. Even RedHat, PCQLinux, SuSE bundle some amount of non-free but redistributable software. A case in particular is nVidia's graphics drivers which are 100% Proprietary.