aranymJun 25, 2023

Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams | The Register

https://lemmy.name/post/4110

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.

Show threadcarlymanJun 26, 2023
Can we avoid clickbait titles? Really hoping the Lemmy community is better than what Reddit turned into.
Show threadaranymJun 26, 2023
…I don’t see how this is clickbait, this is a major damaging move to downstream distros
Show thread13zeroJun 26, 2023

It’s also against the spirit of the GPL if not the letter. Red Hat isn’t just required to release source code to its customers upon request; that source code must be redistributable by customers.

Is it legal for Red Hat to require customers to waive their GPL rights? I don’t think it should be, but I don’t think courts are particularly friendly to copyleft holders.

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You could still see that comment? I accidentally deleted it a while ago and it looks deleted when I visit this post from Beehaw… federation is weird.
Jun 26, 2023 at 1:40amWeb