Artix Linux Forum

1. What is the license of Artix Linux?

Question: and wouldn't it be much more beneficial/useful  if those dummy newbies learned how to linux works? don't just clicking?  I understand that they want to show other guys at school how beautiful wallpaper they have. I understand that reading the instructions is difficult, in addition, sometimes one has to think about it ... but they still remain stupid and uneducated ... which is a pity :/ 

if somebody don't want to learn anything, he should stay with Windows or Ubuntu (there are many Linux distributions for newbies) . such a person does not need a systemd-free distribution. he doesn't appreciate it.

you didn't ask yourself the basic question: why did we build systemd-free archlinux and not e.g. systemd-free ubuntu? (here is systemd-free devuan)
why did we choose the distribution for EXPERIENCED users? why intentionally don't we have any GUI (except installator)?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux#Principles  (and you want kill it )

Start here:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

then here:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html

The short answer: the specific license depends on the software package. Most of the GNU OS (often mistakenly called just "Linux") is licensed under the GNU GPL. Kernel, Linux, is mainly licensed under the v2 of GNU GPL, because its author, Linus Torvalds, wanted to allow tivoization.

The world is mostly made up of people who are not interested in how computers work

This has created a rotten market in which noteworthy operating systems based on the Linux kernel are in very little demand.

For this reason, beautiful and user-friendly operating systems suffer from stability and performance problems (because the minds of their developers are busy with other things).

The world is mostly made up of people who are not interested in how computers work ,,,

1. What is the license of Artix Linux? I can't find any reference to it in gitea or on the website. I could make a logical assumption about the licenses of the components that Artix Linux uses, but I prefer to talk to a person and ask for an exact answer instead of guessing and making approximate conclusions.

2. If I want to make a distribution based on Artix Linux, can I do that? And if so, what license should I use?

3. If I have to attribute, which one and where?

This has created a rotten market in which noteworthy operating systems based on the Linux kernel are in very little demand.

little demand is because money    money of microsoft vs. money of free software

maybe world of Android, Windows, and iOs, not linux...
if people who are not interested in how computers work, they interesting not about pseudo war "systemd vs. systemd-free". they can use some of existing linux distributions, or? we removed systemd, because WE KNOW why, and we just like it not. your users will soon complain, that your distro is not fully compatible with archlinux.... because systemd missing (some Arch packages still use can use only systemd, packages from AUR...wiki is full of systemd...ohh, your users want read wiki....so no wiki), so for newbies you will switch to archlinux.... ups..here is manjaro for those 'users' 

little demand is because money    money of microsoft vs. money of free software
for example which?
I installed last month Ubuntu and OpenSuSe on laptops, both are very good distribution, beautiful and without performace problems...for example.

we can't forbid you fork us, but maintaining "distribution" (we can't talk about distribution, you'll probably just create your own ISO with some of your gtk2 tools) is very demanding for the whole team of peoples. But as one man show??? 

Please note that this is my personal opinion and in no way represent Artix as a whole.
I think this is a difficult question to answer. Artix, like a lot of Linux distributions, is made up of a lot of software. And because Linux is GPL v2 or GCC is GPL v3 does that mean Artix as a whole is GPL? I don't think so. Since there are different components that make up Artix which are not GPL (e.g. OpenRC is BSD-2), and they are separate software. At the very least, all of our core packages should be using FSF/OSI-approved licenses.

See also: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

However, we release all of our packages' build scripts, so if one wants to make their own distribution based on Artix or want to know how we build our packages, they can start from there.
See: https://gitea.artixlinux.org/artixlinux
Since Artix itself is a distribution based on Arch Linux, I don't see why you can't do that. See above for "what license should I use?". The only catch would be please don't misrepresent the project as an Artix-endorsed project. If someone requests a support to Artix and the fault was from a modification by downstream, we won't be able to answer the problem since we can't reproduce the problem (just like the Arch team probably experienced support requests from people using Antergos/Endeavour, Manjaro, or even Artix, though I haven't heard about the last one).
Like on our mainsite, you can just say, "<name> Linux, Artix-based distribution". Just don't misrepresent your project as an Artix-endorsed project.

Good luck!

I wish good luck positioning yourself in"the market".
As for artix linux, and speaking for myself, there is no thought or intention wasted on markets.
We provide a linux distro, pacman based without systemd, which has been the initial goal and mission, and was strictly speaking for private use originally.
Now artix has grown, which has been a fun ride.

Is your fork whatever you intend a commercial attempt?
If that is the case, cooperation would be very limited, I am afraid.