News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”. Parent comment

Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by scottlamb on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:45PM (#28473832)
At least you can legally build it locally, just not distribute the result. That's still better than what's possible with proprietary software.

As drran mentioned, I'm sure RMS would say the problem here is that Linux is licensed under v2 only. Linus of course would disagree.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by zaarn on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:26AM (#28479028)
There is proprietary "source available" software that I can compile locally but not distribute the result either. The GPLv2/3 disaster is not an improvement.
[ Parent | on HN ]