[Fedora-marketing-list] Derivate distributions and GPL

Hi "The article revealed that many distributions' maintainers were erroneously assuming that they did not need to provide source repositories for packages they did not modify, so long as the original upstream distribution did provide the source code. This responsibility is by no means new, but seems to have been widely overlooked. David Turner, GPL compliance officer at the Free Software Foundation, suggested that these distros might come into compliance by making some arrangement with the upstream supplier. Turner's suggestion was rejected by Max Spevack, Fedora Board chair, partly because of the possible expense, but chiefly because it might encourage forking and leave the upstream distribution open to legal liability for the downstream one." http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/2044245&from=rss Not sure how a agreement with upstream would encourage forking. Max, can you expand on that? Needless to say, a better working arrangement with derivative distributions is pretty important for Fedora. We have a number of Fedora derivatives out there that could be doing interesting modifications that we need to look at. Rahul