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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • I agree, the parasitic nature of this relationship has been sharpened in the past week and made many of us think more critically of it.

    My question is - what happens if several significant FOSS projects change their licence to “Sources must be publically available if repackaged” or even “Cannot be packaged for sale”, specifically to prevent a non-freely available distro profiting from it.

    Yes, that distro could fork the software at the point before the new licence is applied, but they they would be responsible for maintaining that fork going forwards, no? And that would take a lot of resources and need it to be called something else.