Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Jun 26, 2023

Re: RHEL CentOS git changes. They now make it clear their recent changes were to stop others repackaging into other distributions.

I do *get* what they’re trying to say. Simply allowing others super easy access to repack doesn’t make business sense for them.

However those two paragraph’s don’t help how they look and directly contradict each other….

Literally goes from ”Don’t build from us you freeloaders” To “Building from others is what open source is all about”.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes

More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.

Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Jun 26, 2023
What they’re doing still isn’t “wrong” though and doesn’t make it “closed source” like some clickbaiters have been claiming. They don’t have to give it out like they did before. Sucks for downstreams using it but 🤷‍♂️
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@gamingonlinux It certainly seems antithetical to the open source philosophy, so, yeah, I think it actually is wrong. Illegal? No. License violation? No. Ethically wrong? Yes.
Jun 26, 2023 at 8:51pmWeb