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Red Hat just erected a paywall in front of the source code to their Linux distribution.Are they burning bridges to the wider open source ecosystem?Referenced...

An exceptionally well explained rant that I find myself in total agreement with.

  • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.socialEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    Except that Redhat is trying to literally stop one of the four essential freedoms - the freedom to redistribute. Arguably they might actually be breaking the terms of the GPL.

    • AlexEnglish
      47·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think they are. You can distribute the corresponding source for your binaries. You just won’t get updates to the binaries (and their corresponding source) afterwards.

      • JuxtaposedJaguarEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Not only will you not get updates (after they end your subscription), but you’ll probably lose access to the entirety of their packages before you can download all of them in the first place.

        • AlexEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Well there is a clause about how long source code needs to be available for. I wonder what the actual interaction will be there.