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Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by doggodaddo78 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @01:50PM (#27723430)
Liking this or not is an immaterial feeling-based opinion. If you don't understand software licenses and their impact, then you need to read about their limitations on the stakeholders. (DDG is your friend.)

GPL3 prevents TiVoization. If you want to make a "TiVo" without other people dictating what you can do with your effort, GPL3 is a nonstarter. The easiest thing to do is swap the userland for something with a better license.

Rich autocrats like RMS promoting snowball's chance unreasonable utopianism, an giveaway, noncommercial self-righteousness is fine when you don't have to feed a family or keep 100 workers feeding theirs too. Such purity is a luxury of the privileged and those with nothing else better to do.

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