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Re: Debian license issue



Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> All that being said, other distributions have attmepted to
> put a licence on the whole distribution, not
> always consistently.
>
> Red Hat had a copyright on their artwork etc. and required
> derivatives to change their branding accordingly.
>
> Almalinux - a CentOS derivative - has a GPL2 licence over
> everything, Rocky Linux, which is essentially identical, is
> put out under a 3 clause BSD licence. Debian doesn't have an
> overall licence, as others have said, and the trademarks are
> liberally licensed. [I'm not sure anyone has used the bottle
> logo for a long time].
>
> All the very best, as ever,

How does it work with other distro being forks (derivatives)
of Debian, or some other distro being a Debian derivative, and
so on - what's happening when they first base their distro on
Debian, then put their own licence on theirs?

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