Thank you for going deeper in the subject. Software licenses are fertile ground for infinite lawyery debate. :)

I’m dipping my toes into understanding the licenses, and of course I don’t fully understand the details of all of the possible software combinations and it’s licenses implications.

I’m assuming distros could be considered derivative work, and therefore covered by GPL, when using GPL software. Which would make most closed source applications based on such distros inviable. That’s why I though about how could a non-GPL distro be useful.

If my assumption is wrong, which is perfectly possible, then I’m wrong.

Again, thank you for articulating it!