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 threadlivingcoderJun 25, 2023
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?
Show threadcopolymer__Jun 26, 2023
AFAIK, the source is still available with a free Developer License from Red Hat. Still annoying AF, though.
Show thread13zeroJun 26, 2023
What stops one person with a free account from mirroring the source?
Show threadquaddoJun 26, 2023

From TFA:

Some commentators are pointing out that it's possible to sign up for a free Red Hat Developer account, and obtain the source code legitimately that way. This is perfectly true, but the problem is that the license agreement that you have to sign to get that account prevents you from redistributing the software.

Show thread13zero

Got it.

I don’t see how that could comply with the terms of the GPL.

Jun 26, 2023 at 1:52amWeb