Solus "taking back control of Budgie"?
 

Hi all,
I read that Solus was taking back its control of Budgie development because so many people were taking it in a direction they did not like. I think the word "degrading" was used. I'm curious what this means in the free software world. Obviously other distros continue to use Budgie, and i assume they develop it to suit their own needs. So what does this statement mean in practice? Thanks.

bill

Where did you see this? The answers are probably right there.

Anyhow, it's got a license. Look at the license. Once it's "GPL'd" you can't really take it back, I guess.
Of course they could change their license for future budgie versions, but that doesn't usually turn out so well.
Because this has happened before, many times, and usually it goes:
- the project's last GPL version gets forked with a proper FOSS license
- the original project shrivels (and sometimes dies)

One source is here... https://github.com/solus-project/bud...-solus-project ...and scroll down

Sounds like they didn't like how 'commercial interests' were using/corrupting it, so have taken it back under their stewardship, sound idea, I would think.

Anyone can still access the code & alter to suit their needs, but won't be able to call it 'Budgie'.

That all?
That's acceptable I think - even for debian's strict rules (see Iceweasel - now Firefox again).