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 threadJan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️Jun 26, 2023
@gamingonlinux
There is a massive difference to building on others (ergo adding value/ideas) and just rebuilding verbatim. I believe that is what they are trying to convey.
Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Jun 26, 2023

@jan Yes there is and I somewhat agree on simply rebadging. However, that is also largely part of the open source community and what licensing allows so again 🤷‍♂️

Often these downstreams are to simply get around paying licensing for support costs to get it free. So in a way, yeah these downstreams do become total freeloaders. And entirely depending on someone else’s work is such a bad business model to begin with.

Show threadJan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️

@gamingonlinux
What really does rub me the wrong way is all the corporate entities that I know which depend on centos (back in the day), make a crapton of profit, yet refuse to buy a support license, give anything back to FOSS,... they just take, contributing nothing back.

Those should be weeded out.

Jun 27, 2023 at 5:50amWeb