Fortunately the license forces them to contribute the code back
It doesn’t. It would only do so if they distributed their modified kernel to others, rather than simply running it on their own servers.
Fortunately, they wisely chose to contribute their changes upstream, presumably so they aren’t burdened with having to adapt it to every new kernel version in the future. Fortunately, we benefit as a side effect of that decision.
It doesn’t. It would only do so if they distributed their modified kernel to others, rather than simply running it on their own servers.
Fortunately, they wisely chose to contribute their changes upstream, presumably so they aren’t burdened with having to adapt it to every new kernel version in the future. Fortunately, we benefit as a side effect of that decision.