Re: [dev] GPL free Linux

2018-11-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 09:43:12PM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Markus Wichmann writes: > > Why would you do something so pointless? First of all, licences only > > matter if you plan on redistribution, so most here won't care. Second, > > all the GPL demands is that you distribute the

Re: [dev] GPL free Linux

2018-11-11 Thread Platon Ryzhikov
12.11.2018, 08:29, "Markus Wichmann" : > What's to help? You download the source, install it, remove udev from > your init system and add smdev to it. Maybe add some configuration, but > the defaults seem to work pretty well. I tried to do that in systemd-free Arch-based distro. In general

[dev] GPL free Linux

2018-11-11 Thread Alessandro Pistocchi
Hi everyone, I am new to suckless.org. I have seen some of your projects and I think I share a vision with you guys to make things as simple as possible but not simpler. I am working on a project to remove gpl stuff from Linux userspace ( I am ok with GPL executables but not with GPL or LGPL

Re: [dev] GPL free Linux

2018-11-11 Thread Markus Wichmann
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 03:01:02AM +0100, Alessandro Pistocchi wrote: > Hi everyone, > Hi Alessandro, > I am new to suckless.org. I have seen some of your projects and I > think I share a vision with you guys to make things as simple as > possible but not simpler. > That's why you have an

Re: [dev] GPL free Linux

2018-11-11 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Markus Wichmann writes: > Why would you do something so pointless? First of all, licences only > matter if you plan on redistribution, so most here won't care. Second, > all the GPL demands is that you distribute the source, which any good > distribution should do, anyway, right? GPL also demands