On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:13:10 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In which case your Paludis fork of Gentoo will take off like a > scalded cat, and the world will come racing to your door begging for > your Mk II version of Gentoo. Go for it, the GPL ensures that you > have nothing to lose. Others have done it with varying degrees of > success. Kororaa and Sabayon come to mind immediatly, and I seem to > remember a very early fork which foundered pretty quickly.
Paludis is a package manager, not a distribution. And no, the GPL does not mean there's nothing to lose -- the Zynot fork did a fair bit of damage to Gentoo, and no-one wants a repeat of that mess... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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