Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams | The Register
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Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams | The Register - LemmyName
> A superficially modest blog post
[https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream] from a
senior Hatter announces that going forward, the company will only publish the
source code of its CentOS Stream product to the world. In other words, only
paying customers will be able to obtain the source code to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux… And under the terms of their contracts with the Hat, that means that they
can’t publish it.
How does this work with the code license? If this is all fine, doesn't this mean that we should be avoiding the kind of license they're using in the future?
It’s a GPL violation to not allow their customers to share the source. I’m guessing they’ll reverse that decision within the week.
I have to image that their fleet of attorneys would have thought of this before hand.
I was confused they didn’t think of this either, but the language in the license is very clear. I see no way it cannot be infringing.
Another excerpt from the GPLv3 that explicitly describes and disallows what Red Hat is doing:
If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.
What if they technically allow redistribution, but terminate access to recieving updates for doing so? So you can distribute a copy of version N, but if you do so you will not recieve version N+1, and therefore will not be able to get source code for version N+1. Not sure if this is how it is in their contract though.
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