Linux Ported to the M1

Re:Linux Ported to the M1 by my123 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:30AM (#25801824)

He's arguing in bad faith.

https://twitter.com/never_released/status/135040331615765708...

then he argues that anyone shipping source in tarballs is noncompliant:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1350408910314721280?s=21

While Red Hat does this for RHEL and CentOS, and is standard practice in the industry:

https://twitter.com/never_released/status/135041167764109312...

Nothing to see here.

He made it clear that he won't use any of the code from elsewhere, it's an not-invented-here syndrome on steroids that will result in lots of lost time. :-(

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Re:Linux Ported to the M1 by t0astbread on Saturday January 16, 2021 @11:58AM (#25803460)

The way I see it is he's just trying to be extremely cautious about legalities. Which should always be fair but especially when you're dealing with a corporation like Apple. It sucks that it hurts collaboration but I find it astonishing that people are trying to blame him for it when all he wants is to protect himself legally.

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Re:Linux Ported to the M1 by sirn on Saturday January 16, 2021 @08:28AM (#25802046)

> then he argues that anyone shipping source in tarballs is noncompliant:

I think he might be referring to the section 2a of GPLv2 (5a of GPLv3) which require keeping track of modifications to the source code. I've never seen this clause being enforced, though. (IANAL)

I also wishes there were some sort of collaboration rather than an outright dismissal.

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Re:Linux Ported to the M1 by my123 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @09:38AM (#25802424)

It's a tantrum, he'll probably come to his senses a few days later. And then those issues can be cleaned up.

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