Linux goes full authoritarian: The Linux Foundation is working with the UN at the forefront of developing vaccine passports, and Linus goes out of his way to criticize vaccine skeptics - Kotaku In Action 2

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Linux goes full authoritarian: The Linux Foundation is working with the UN at the forefront of developing vaccine passports, and Linus goes out of his way to criticize vaccine skeptics

posted 3 years ago by altmehere 3 years ago by altmehere +109 / -0

Vaccine passports: https://archive.is/9psCP

Linus's comments: https://archive.is/pXzn9

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– AntonioOfVenice 23 points 3 years ago +26 / -3

It's freedom because the source code is open and you don't have to pay them. So it definitely is better than M$.

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– Assassin47 26 points 3 years ago +26 / -0

and you don't have to pay them

More importantly that you can legally create and sell products based on their code without paying them.

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– kc446 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Yes, the GPL license says GPL code must remain GPL after forking and that the license itself does not cover any usage scenarios, only when making transmissible copies.

If I made a copy and gave it to someone else, whether by sale or contract, it has nothing to do with whoever I got it from, they have no say over how it is copied. Likewise to whoever obtained a copy from me, I have no say over what they do with it as long as remains compliant to the GPL.

It is also illegal to add additional terms to the GPL, you must give the same freedoms as you were given.