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Re:Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-... by jonhohle on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:10AM (#50427485)
You cannot take a public domain work and choose to relicense it with something more restrictive. Licensing is based on copyright. If you have no copyright, you cannot license. Attempting to do so is fraud.

The NOTICE or other document could specify which parts are covered under copyright, but they do not. Apache 2.0 restricts what others can do with this (as limited as those requirements are). This is not allowed under current copyright laws.

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Re:Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-... by flavionm on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:52AM (#50428146)
You cannot relicense a public domain work, but you can release a public domain work under a different license. If you couldn't, you wouldn't be able to make derivative works out of public domain material without the derivative also being public domain.

The new license simply doesn't apply to anything that is in the public domain, only to the new parts and to the combined work.

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