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 threadOrbitalMartian
@gamingonlinux I swear that's the whole point of open source, to be able to fork and build upon something to make it better, and to collaborate.
Jun 26, 2023 at 9:06pmWeb
Show threadRobin Edser Jun 26, 2023

@LinuxGamer @gamingonlinux which anyone can still do. That's what the original individual projects upstream + Fedora + CentOS Stream are for.

You couldn't ever collaborate on and contribute to RHEL before either (and in fact now you actually can via CentOS Stream). If you want to fork and build upon Anaconda, or virt-manager or some other RH project you can. You don't need to clone the entire OS to do that.