Comment on RetroDECK - Status update 2023-09
julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months agoFree software is not about free of charge, but about freedom. If you publish open source software under a license which allows commercial use or selling the software, you have given consent. If you don‘t like that, change the license. (Users will still be able to use the software for free if they choose to compile it themself, because the source code is available.
Redhat does exactly what you are describing: Packageing open source software into a paid Linux distribution and I would say they had an immense net positive effect on Linux doing this. I believe that this the point. Don‘t be an asshole. If you partly profit of someone else open source software, give them money, bug reports, bug fixes, recognition, etc. Be part of the community.
warmaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
IIRC They are not complying with some licenses of the software they are redistributing, IDK. I do not have an opinion on it because I’m not well informed about their exact actions, I’m just repeating what I can remember from RetroDeck’s Discord.
lazorne@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
We don’t want to comment to much on this issue. But this we can refute, we don’t believe that any licenses have been broken or illegality have taken place. The discord did get a flood of users that screamed fowl. This has never been proven to be true so far as we know. julianwgs comment above is more inline on from what we understand from all those that have been affected.
We as a project can not speak for others, but we can speak for us on what our moral compass is: Hence the statement above.