Mastodawn

nixCraft 🐧Jun 21, 2023

Wow. Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability: CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases. For Red Hat customers and partners, source code will remain available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream What do you think? #linux #opensource

Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

As the CentOS Stream community grows and the enterprise software world tackles new dynamics, we want to sharpen our focus on CentOS Stream as the backbone of enterprise Linux innovation. We are continuing our investment in and increasing our commitment to CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases.

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Random Damage 🌻Jun 21, 2023

@nixCraft contrary to what a lot of people are going to say, they aren't violating the GPL with this.

If they distribute binaries to you, you have access to the source code those binaries were built from.

That's all the GPL promises.

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Ankit Pati

@RandomDamage @nixCraft The customers can then turn around and publish it in an open GitHub repo.

There’s nothing RedHat can legally do about that, according to the GPL.

Their developer program allows free access to their binaries, which implies free access to the source.

They could try to punish people by deactivating their accounts, but they’ll have to find a way to fingerprint the source code they offer to each person. Not realistic.