[Nottingham] Linux turns 25 -- corporate contributors now key to its future

VM vadim+NLUG at mankevich.co.uk
Mon Aug 29 13:22:22 UTC 2016



> On 28 Aug 2016, at 23:59, Neal Ponton via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Just had to look up fuchsia. 
> 
> Was also reading about Intel's version of Linux yesterday. It's called 'Clear Linux' and is very minimal, designed to have containers bolted onto it, like CoreOS. I've just had a better look at that, too, and it seems Intel are using the Creative Commons license. Not sure if that's more or less gooder than the GPL or what? 
What they call a container is actually a trimmed down QEMU virtual machine. In theory it's more secure but in reality QEMU on the host is a security disaster. There is very marginal reduction of attack surface in comparison to traditional containers with trimmed down and hardened kernels. The virtualisation is provided by the kernel (GPL), QEMU is GPL, systemd is GPL, so overall all the source code to their stack is under GPL.
Perhaps, binary images can be considered artwork and distributed under a CC licence. :)


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