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June 1, 2024 at 9:38 am
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I remember there was a conversation in the OpenELA slack about distributions shipping non-copyleft software.

If I remember correctly this stemmed from my idea of creating a smaller core system that would utilize chimera-utils from Chimera Linux. The idea of this was to not only create a smaller core system, but also use utilities that have a better code quality than their GNU counterparts.

What sparked the discussion was that because chimera-utils is licensed under BSD. BSD licensing not being copyleft doesn't prevent an organization from making portions of Enterprise Linux proprietary.

It was an interesting discussion.

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