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		randkyp on Aug 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released It's a trademark thing; there are some prerequisites and manual approval involved before you get to officially name your distro "[Distro Name] Linux". https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark

kragen on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

that's not much of an excuse for pretending to have written an os; the only real requirement in https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/sublicense-agreement is that you acknowledge that linus torvalds owns the linux trademark

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