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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 13, 2011 20:46 UTC (Sun) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
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 J. Random Hacker produces a program that is 100% their own code, they are certainly free to licence it under copyleft terms that explicitly state the preferred form for modifications to be a $VCS_TOOL tree forked from the master tree. However, doing so would rather smack of corporatesque control freakery.


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