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What it does is move the license issue from Arch to the user[1]. Instead of Arch infringing on the GPL, the user is infringing on the GPL. It's much harder fo
by mikekchar 11y ago
What it does is move the license issue from Arch to the user[1]. Instead of Arch infringing on the GPL, the user is infringing on the GPL. It's much harder for groups like the SFC to sue a bunch of users than it is to sue an organization, but it doesn't make the licenses compatible.
I feel for the SFC on this issue, but I wonder what they realistically expect the outcome will be. Ubuntu stops distributing ZFS? Ubuntu ships a means to install ZFS from source (which doesn't remove the infringement, just shifts it)? Oracle convinces everybody to change the license? The last seems wildly unlikely, so I just don't quite understand what they are trying to do.
[1] Of course, AUR is a community oriented repository, not part of Arch proper, so there is not really any question of Arch being involved at all. But you get the point...
- EdHominem 11y agoThe user can't infringe on the GPL. Not possible. Users already have (by the nature of copyright law) and are explicitly in the GPL given the right to do whatever they want with the code, short of distributing it.
- mikekchar 11y agoSorry. Yes, of course you are right. They would have to distribute it. It's strange how one can carry incorrect notions in one's head for a long time... Thanks for correcting me!