Re:The struggles of an open source maintainer
by aaron-santos on Friday May 17, 2019 @11:47AM
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More of a general question: is there any license or addendum clause which could have remedied this? Linux distribution creators love adhering to specific license requirements. Would a choice between distributing vanilla software vs not distributing have been more appealing?
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Re:The struggles of an open source maintainer
by bonzini on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:25PM
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That would make the program not free/open source (e g. CC-BY-ND is not considered free), so free-only distros such as Fedora would have simply not considered it.
Trademarks can control this while remaining open source. If you ship an official package it's Firefox™ but if you ship a hacked-up version it's Iceweasel. Of course everyone will tell you you're evil if you try to do this.