02-12-2020, 02:36 PM
I bet they hear from Smallflacid's lawyers soon. (I'm pretty sure that's trademark infringement.).
Even though Linux Lite is free to use, doesn't something about open-source licensing protect against this kind of wholesale repackaging? I don't know where the fine line is. The person who did this could have one it by going further upstream using Ubuntu's base system the way so many distros do it (and Ubuntu encourages). But, taking a distro and renaming it? That's potentially bad press for Linux Lite. If everyone's mentioning it as "it's LL with Smallflacid's background...," it pulls LL into discussions in ways LL wouldn't be if the person had made their own distro (in the way they are passing this off as being).
Even though Linux Lite is free to use, doesn't something about open-source licensing protect against this kind of wholesale repackaging? I don't know where the fine line is. The person who did this could have one it by going further upstream using Ubuntu's base system the way so many distros do it (and Ubuntu encourages). But, taking a distro and renaming it? That's potentially bad press for Linux Lite. If everyone's mentioning it as "it's LL with Smallflacid's background...," it pulls LL into discussions in ways LL wouldn't be if the person had made their own distro (in the way they are passing this off as being).