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GPL-Free Chimera-Linux Reaching Alpha Reports Phoronix
- dingosity 4y agoI don't want to start a license flame war, but suffice to say some people prefer BSD over GPL. Chimera Linux (which was reported on here two years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27721283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27721283) uses LLVM, musl and Dinit instead of gcc, glibc and systemd.
- phendrenad2 4y agoIt's definitely an interesting project. But I doubt that enough people care about the license that their OS uses to make this a success. Are people going to fork this and close-source parts or all of it? (Except the kernel of course.) That's the only reason I can think of to choose BSD over GPL. Making a new closed-source Unix would be a great idea, but choosing the Linux kernel as a base would still be a questionable choice due to GPL restrictions.