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Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution

Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution

Posted Mar 12, 2011 18:01 UTC (Sat) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution by danieldk
Parent article: Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution

> If one would add a clarification stating "the preferred form is a git
> repository forking from upstream"

This wouldn't prevent anyone from doing what Red Hat did, though.

They could just publish a git repository with a single git commit that combines all the changes they made. And we're back in square one.


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