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Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux

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  Sorry for the lateness of this followup!

Groovy hepcat Mike Easter was jivin' in alt.os.linux on Mon, 28 Jan 2019
08:04 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

> My interpretation of an old corel page from the wayback machine
> suggests that corel didn't release the source code for corel linux.

  [Snip.]

> Will Corel release the source code for its major applications?
> While Corel recognizes the value of open source development in many
> areas, and is actively participating in a number of open source
> efforts such as Wine and development of KDE, the company has no plans
> to release the source code for its major applications. Corel’s major
> applications contain many features that rely on code licensed from
> other vendors, with whom the company has a variety of contractual
> obligations—one of which is to keep their source code private. Corel
> could not release its application source code without a tremendous
> amount of development work to isolate the licensed code, and this work
> would have a significant impact on release schedules.

  This sounds like it's not referring to Corel Linux itself, but
applications containing third party code bundled with Corel Linux.
Actually, since the system itself (including all GUI packages, shells,
kernel, start-up files, etc.) are released under the GPL, Corel is
required to make source code for it available. But, if Corel Linux is
just Debian with KDE, as several people have said, then I think all
Corel really has to do is point to the KDE project and Debian's
sources.

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looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux pechter@helix.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) - 2019-01-27 20:21 +0000
  Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2019-01-27 22:02 +0100
    Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-01-27 15:50 -0600
  Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-01-27 13:04 -0800
    Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2019-02-10 17:51 +1100
  Re: looking for iso of sources for v1.2 of Corel Linux Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-01-27 13:13 -0800

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