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They just don't want it to be repackaged with patches that cause them to receive support requests for issues which are essentially a distro fault
by privacyking 4y ago
They just don't want it to be repackaged with patches that cause them to receive support requests for issues which are essentially a distro fault
- throwaway_ha 4y agoUse it but not modify it? With that attitude it can't even be classified as Open Source. Hard pass.
- privacyking 4y agoFirefox does the same thing. By your definition, it is not open source either. They don't care if you use a different name (e.g. Fennec) though.
- snapetom 4y agoThey don't want you forking it for that purpose, either. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 Is it technically open source? Yes. Is it spiritually open source? No. Is it arrogance and poor management? Along with many ways this project is run, absolutely yes.
- Avamander 4y agoToo bad. If they intentionally make it hard for people to make a software follow their distro conventions, be it immutability or reproceability, then they shouldn't be too surprised that forcing the software to behave properly could cause side-effects.