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@ -16,6 +16,58 @@ While it may sound too good to be true, that's because it is. Maple Linux does n
- By taking advantage of newer hardware, we are making the system incompatible with older machines. This isn't to say that Maple Linux *shouldn't* be run on older machines, but rather that it is out of scope for this project. If you want to make this run on your own hardware, then by all means, go right ahead. That's the beauty of open source.
- In order to achieve the "unified" experience, the software you are given has been pre-determined so we can focus on optimizing Maple Linux as a whole. This makes it far less generic and customizable, but offers a much more coherent and focused system overall. In addition, this makes it much more maintainable for a single developer such as myself.
### Licensing
Maple Linux is built upon software created by various developers, and is distributed under various licenses as a result. While it isn't one of the main goals of the system, especially since Linux itself is copyleft, I aim to create an operating system that's as free as I can reasonably make it.
| Software | Copyright Holder | License | Alignment |
| ----------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ |
| Autoconf | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| Automake | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| GNU bc | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| Berkeley Yacc | Public Domain | Public Domain | Free |
| bzip2 | Julian R. Seward | Modified Zlib license | Free |
| CMake | Kitware, Inc. and Contributors | BSD 3-Clause license | Free |
| Coreutils | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| Debian Almquist Shell | Various | Modified BSD 3-Clause license(?) *and* GNU General Public License version 3 | Slightly Copyleft |
| GNU Diffutils | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| GNU Find Utilities | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| Flex | Various | BSD 2-Clause license | Free |
| fortune-mod | Various | BSD 4-Clause license | Free |
| GNU Grep | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| GNU roff | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| GNU Gzip | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| initramfs-tools | Various | GNU General Public License version 2 | Copyleft |
| kmod | Various | GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 | Copyleft |
| libarchive | Tim Kientzle | Mostly BSD 2-Clause license | Free |
| libcap | Andrew G. Morgan | BSD 3-Clause license *or* GNU General Public License version 2 | Slightly Copyleft |
| libelf | Various | GNU General Public License version 2 *and* GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| LibreSSL | Various | Various | Free |
| The GNU Portable Library Tool | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 2 | Copyleft |
| Limine | Mintsuki and Contributors | BSD 2-Clause license | Free |
| Linux | Linus Torvalds and Contributors | Mostly GNU General Public License version 2 with Linux Syscall Note | Copyleft |
| LLVM | Various | Mostly Apache License version 2.0 with LLVM exceptions | Free |
| GNU m4 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| GNU Make | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| Maple Linux Bootstrap Scripts | Alexander Hill, Nicholas McDaniel, and Contributors | ISC License | Free |
| Mawk | Various | GNU General Public License version 2 | Copyleft |
| muon | Stone Tickle and Contributors | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| musl | Rich Felker and Contributors | Mostly MIT License | Slightly Copyright |
| GNU nano | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| The Netwide Assembler | "The NASM Authors" | BSD 2-Clause license | Free |
| New Curses | Thomas E. Dickey and Free Software Foundation, Inc. | Modified MIT License | Free |
| OpenRC | Roy Marples and the OpenRC authors | BSD 2-Clause license | Free |
| GNU patch | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| Perl | Larry Wall and others | GNU General Public License version 1 | Copyleft |
| pkgconf | Various | ISC License | Free |
| GNU sed | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| GNU tar | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | GNU General Public License version 3 | Copyleft |
| xz | Various | Mostly BSD 0-Clause license | Slightly Copyleft |
| Zlib | Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler | Zlib License | Free |
| Zsh | The Zsh development group | Mostly MIT License (Modern Variant) | Slightly Copyleft |
If any of the information listed above is inaccurate, please submit a patch to correct the README. ~ahill
### Filesystem Hierarchy
Maple Linux uses a slightly different filesystem hierarchy compared to most Linux systems, but it shouldn't be enough to become incompatible with existing software. The following are the notable changes: