• Dehydrated@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    To quote Software Freedom Conservancy:

    For approximately twenty years, Red Hat (now a fully owned subsidiary of IBM) has experimented with building a business model for operating system deployment and distribution that looks, feels, and acts like a proprietary one, but nonetheless complies with the GPL and other standard copyleft terms.

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      8 months ago

      To quote both of you “nevertheless complies with the GPL and other standard copyleft terms”.

      Were you trying to prove his point?

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        8 months ago

        Obviously they comply with the GPL, otherwise they would get sued. But Red Hat acts exactly like a proprietary software company. That’s what the quote is trying to say.