Subj : Apertis v2024 released
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From : LWN.net
Date : Thu Dec 05 2024 23:45:05

Apertis v2024 released

Date:
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:38:50 +0000

Description:
Apertis is a Collabora-developed
Debian derivative distribution designed to be incorporated into electronic
devices; the v2024
release is now available.  It is now based on the Bookworm release, and
includes support for Podman, ONNX
Runtime , OP-TEE, and more. Apertis relies on the Debian Free Software 
Guidelines to ensure all
	software shipped is open source or, in limited cases, at least
	freely distributable. However, for some customers this is not
	enough to be able to adopt OSS solutions as in their evaluations
	some provisions in common licenses like the GPL-3 are at odds with
	regulatory constraints they are subject to. Apertis does not set to
	solve this decades-long debate, and instead its goal is to increase
	the adoption of modern, maintained OSS solutions in markets where
	this has historically been a challenge. To enable this, Apertis
	supports avoiding the use of any software under some licenses (like
	the [GPL v3.0 license family) on target images, while still making
	them fully available for development and for customers that do not
	share those licensing concerns. To avoid these licenses, Apertis
	uses more modern alternatives instead of relying on outdated and
	unmaintained pre-GPL-3 versions. For instance, coreutils and
	findutils (GPL-3+) are replaced in Apertis by rust-coreutils and
	rust-findutils.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1001013/


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