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CherryOS Goes Open Source

Posted by Zonk on from the curiouser-and-curiouser dept.

netsniper writes "The CherryOS website now acknowledges a forthcoming alliance with Open Source Software! After going 'on hold' recently, a re-release of CherryOS is purported to be coming in May according to the site. This is great news on the surface, but let's see how it pans out. This move is probably a result of the many reviews of their product that set out to prove it was bogus."

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  1. oh please by eobanb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh please. Can this whole shenanigan just end already? By now, it's already been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that CherryOS is a repackaged version of PearPC (google for "spiro multimax 3000"). Arben and MXS are using absolutely any tactic to get attention. He must have a serious ego problem.

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  2. It's Easy by CypherXero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's easy. All they had to do in order to avoid all the bad press is to start out with it being Open Source. The GPL states that you can charge for a product, or do whatever you like with it, just as long as your provide the source code. And if you use source code from another project (PearPC), then you have to acknowledge it.

    It was so simple and easy, I don't know why they didn't Open Source Cherry OS from the begining.

    1. Re:It's Easy by Chris+Kamel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Probably because they thought they'd get away with it. Developers tend to think that noone will understand a thing in the inner workings of their applications as long as they protect the sourcecode.

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    2. Re:It's Easy by jb.hl.com · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Hence why 'selling' a 100% GPL product is never going to be a wise business move.

      Which is why Red Hat crashed and burned all those years ago.

      Obviously.

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  3. Still violating GPL? by The+New+Andy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From the GPL:

    4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.

    Does this mean that CherryOS has already lost their license to use the source code from PearPC?

  4. copyright infingment != theft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can you steal it. They only copied and modified the source, no theft here.

    Move along, the parent is nothing but a TROLL!