Seems like IBM is going to make RHEL closed source. What’s everyone’s opinion about the move? I feel RHEL is now the evil villain distro of the community.

  • Affine Connection@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not like the entire operating system is GPL. The customers are obviously free to redistribute the source for the free software components.

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      1 year ago

      Another poster brought this up. The tooling used to construct the distribution itself isn’t GPL code.

      Couldn’t it be that RH are taking about banning accounts that share non-GPL code from their distribution? Given their upstream contribution history, it seems unlikely to me that they would throw a fit over GPL source files they probably already distributed in some form in CentOS Stream.

      Earning cash on free software code isn’t a crime. RH clearly is frustrated with the existence of Oracle EL etc al, and want to make it more difficult for enterprise competitors to leverage their person-hours. As long as they continue to share source with the people given access to the binaries, I’ll keep an open mind about this change.