Fedora members plan on creating a Cosmic Desktop Spin

@[email protected] · edit-2 9 months ago

Fedora members plan on creating a Cosmic Desktop Spin

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Its not really proprietary. Developers get the code, and everyone that gets the binaries also gets the code. Thats GPL compliant.

@Dehydrated · 9 months ago

To quote Software Freedom Conservancy:

For approximately twenty years, Red Hat (now a fully owned subsidiary of IBM) has experimented with building a business model for operating system deployment and distribution that looks, feels, and acts like a proprietary one, but nonetheless complies with the GPL and other standard copyleft terms.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

To quote both of you “nevertheless complies with the GPL and other standard copyleft terms”.

Were you trying to prove his point?

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

As shocking as this might be, I think he’s agreeing, and offering supplimentary proof

@Dehydrated · 9 months ago

Obviously they comply with the GPL, otherwise they would get sued. But Red Hat acts exactly like a proprietary software company. That’s what the quote is trying to say.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Devs get the code but can’t redistribute it, so it’s proprietary code

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

They can look at it and change it, so it is not secret.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

That’s not enough. Still proprietary