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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.

    • underiskEnglish
      282·
      1 year ago

      … the freedom to study, change, and redistribute the software you use.

      They are specifically and explicitly trying to limit your freedom with regards to redistribution by making it a violation of their EULA to do so.

        • underiskEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          The people using RHEL aren’t using CentOS Stream, and they aren’t able to redistribute the actual software they are actively using. I don’t know how to state this any clearer.

            • underiskEnglish
              15·
              1 year ago

              Those snapshots are not CentOS Stream. You are not running CentOS Stream, in the state in which it is provided, when you run a RHEL release. They arent entirely separate, but that’s exaggerating the claim and not what I’m arguing. The people who are using RHEL as provided are not able to redistribute the thing which they are using.

                • underiskEnglish
                  121·
                  1 year ago

                  Once again, their adherence to the letter of the GPL is certainly up for debate, I said as much at the start.

                  Their violation of its intent, however, is not. They are putting up roadblocks, however trivial or insignificant you seem to believe they are, to limit your freedom in redistributing they code they are providing. Period. This controversy would not exist if they weren’t.