Distros and repos: how do forks work in practice?
| It's not unusual for one distro to be based on another. Often the fork has its own repositories but this isn't always so. For example, Bodhi Linux uses the Ubuntu repos. I wonder how they square this with Canonical. Do they pay them some sort of rent? Or do they just take the stuff, knowing that Canonical have no legal right to stop them? I know it's free software but what are the ethics of this kind of piggybacking, especially when it isn't a big company like Canonical but some small setup which is taking a good deal of trouble to keep their repos well maintained and up to date? |
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