His goal is to make the system more popular, and he believes its value to society lies in the merely practical: its power, reliability and easy availability. Linus Torvalds is the “posterboy” (other people’s choice of word, not ours) for his goals, not ours. Just to remind you that there is a lot of spew available on the FSF’s website, I’ll quote you my favorite: “If new users coming into the Linux world don’t think that preserving the GNU spirit of Linux (as in no digital choke-chain Eula telling you where you may install the OS and whom you may share it with)”Īre you saying I’m a new Linux user trying to get over on the GNU spirit? lol. And least Red Hat and Mandrake don’t restrict third-party distribution or tell you what types of computers you may install their free download product on. Remember that next time you go talking about how much better Lycoris is than Red Hat and Mandrake. yes, this does differentiate us from mandrake and RH and others, and keeps us from being free software purists. but because the software in the desktop/lx product are not all GPL, we can place any restrictions on the proprietary components we like, including the requirement that you pay per seat for commercial use. it says this for all of the open source licenses, too, not just GPL. “Our license does state that you can take the GPL stuff and do whatever you want with it, in accordance with the GPL. In the words of Joseph Cheek, founder and CTO of Lycoris: If that is not proprietary, then I don’t know what is.
According to the Lycoris EULA you are not allowed to use the free download version in a commercial setting or distribute that free version in a commercial setting.
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