When it comes to Linux Distros, each are either managed by their community or by a company. With recent news, it becomes clearer than ever that those managed…
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I’m confused on how this is legal? Isn’t Linux based on a license that prevents them from doing that? I was under the understanding that was how CentOS came into being in the first place.
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It’s not the Linux kernel that’s being closed, but likely their own contributions, which most likely aren’t all GPL.
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And that is dumb. Companies with any sense will veer to debian and distros that are going to be open with their own contributions because gasp - you can write code, put it out under gpl v2 or a permissive license and make money on the support contracts like they were doing.