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scottlamb on Sept 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”

At least you can legally build it locally, just not distribute the result. That's still better than what's possible with proprietary software.

As drran mentioned, I'm sure RMS would say the problem here is that Linux is licensed under v2 only. Linus of course would disagree.

zaarn on Sept 10, 2021 [–]

There is proprietary "source available" software that I can compile locally but not distribute the result either. The GPLv2/3 disaster is not an improvement.

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