• maniii@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    You are not wrong. IBM management paralleled in the same cash-grab and exit C-suite functions that has consumed Redhat. That is why the merger happened.

    Soon, Purple Hat should be charging for systemd and hopefully other corpos and organizations will move back to sanity.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 days ago

      Soon, Purple Hat should be charging for systemd and hopefully other corpos and organizations will move back to sanity.

      From systemd licenses readme:

      Unless otherwise noted, the systemd project sources are licensed under the terms and conditions of LGPL-2.1-or-later (GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later).

      New sources that cannot be distributed under LGPL-2.1-or-later will no longer be accepted for inclusion in the systemd project to maintain license uniformity.

      I can understand critism of systemd for its tools only working with itself and not with any other Unix tools. But it’s absolutely a conspiracy theory to think they’d want to charge for systemd. Though I do agree that if someone was charging for systemd (which they can’t because its open source), open source alternatives would pop up.