Final thoughts on the Red Hat thing: every supporter of the Red Hat move told me that "it's normal to want to prevent people from stealing the hard work and making a clone of it".
If you think grabbing the code and reusing it is "stealing", you don't understand FOSS.
No matter what RH clones contribute, or if they're worth it. That's not the point. The point is, RH builds their stuff using the GPL, and they have to redistribute using the GPL.
Making access to a specific part of that code harder on purpose goes against the principles of Free Software.
Period. Money doesn't factor into this, value, contribution, they don't matter. FOSS is free to use, whether you contribute or not. FOSS is for everyone, "freeloaders", developers, anyone. That's the very point.
Yes, the code is still technically available with a bit more work in Stream's repos. That's not the issue. The "people are stealing from us" talk is the issue.
@thelinuxEXP I do more then agree with your words especially the "freeloaders" and "stealing" part. It's the arrogant behaviour they show.
One thing you mention is wrong by definition. GPL does not say the code is free of cost, but you have the same right do redistribute, modify and sell.
But it's against the open source mindset to restrict this right in other clause "we close the access to get the code if you build a competitive product".
Even this sounds legal to me.
@thelinuxEXP ok, then I misunderstood.
well said in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiTTihPxlqE 100% agreed
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
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