Software Freedom Conservancy
SFC's Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn, has written a comprehensive analysis of the situation with the #RHEL (#RedHat Enterprise #Linux) business model, and how it relates to the software rights & freedoms promised in the #GPL agreements.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/

#CentOS #RedHat #OpenSource #copyleft #FOSS
A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model

This article was originally published primarily as a response to IBM's Red Hat's change to no longer publish complete, corresponding source (CCS) for RHEL and the prior discontinuation of CentOS Linux (which are related events, as described below). We hope that this will serve as a comprehensive document that discusses the history of Red Hat's RHEL business model, the related source code provisioning, and the GPL compliance issues with RHEL.

Software Freedom Conservancy
Jun 23, 2023 at 8:10pmWeb
Show threadHellbentHoboJun 23, 2023
@conservancy It's seriously gross and very obviously not in the spirit of the license. I think it's extremely questionable whether it's permitted by the license at all and desperately hope they get chewed to shit in court over it.
Show threadAlfred M. SzmidtJun 24, 2023
@HellbentHobo @conservancy keeping private changes, or changes that you only distribute to those who get a copy of the binary is very much in the spirit of the #GNU #GPL and #SoftwareFreedom. What BlueHat is doing is using our basic rights against us.. they also control many projects indirectly.
Show threadUnHookedJun 24, 2023

@conservancy the fact that Rocky Linux exists tells me all I need to know.

Criticizing things doesn't always mean you loathe or hate the entirety of the thing, it means you see room for improvement.

Show threadFerles  Jun 24, 2023

@conservancy As a non-computer person whenever I heard "Red Hat," I thought of the folkloric Red Cap--a malevolent and tyrannical creature.

After reading this article, I think maybe I wasn't so far off in making that connecting

Show threadGeneBeanJun 24, 2023
This article from @conservancy about #RedHat / #RHEL is a really good read, and worth your time, especially if you have any attachment to the old #CentOS or @almalinux (#AlmaLinux) or the #GPL in general.
[ #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS ]
Show threadFusionDirectoryJun 24, 2023
@conservancy we stopped all work on centos when redhat literally scratched it overnight only keeping centos 7 😵‍💫 seems we will go to @almalinux for the future for those wanting rpm packages
Show threadAde Malsasa AkbarJul 2, 2023
@conservancy thank you very much for this.