Red Hat announced yesterday that the sources for RHEL will no longer be accessible from git.centos.org. This effectively locks their source changes behind a subscription to RHEL, that costs money.

  • Leigh@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 years ago

    What is it lately with companies and shooting themselves in the foot? Have all the CEOs gotten together and mutually decided that this was the year they were going to piss off their communities?

    Red Hat are burning through a lot of the good will they’ve made over the years with this.

    Here’s the statement the Rocky Linux folks put out:

    https://rockylinux.org/news/2023-06-22-press-release/

    Good luck, brothers. I wish you well.

  • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Opensource licenses typically doesn’t require the software to be free, just that the source and modification be made available to users.

    Making user pay to access both binaries and source is fair, as long as RedHat keep contributing code to upstream projects.

    • EvilColeslaw@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      3 years ago

      The more questionable issue though is their suggestion that they will cancel support agreements and dev accounts that redistribute their code. That seems like it’s skirting very close to violation of the letter of the GPL. It shits all over the spirit of it.

      • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        3 years ago

        Good point, the right to redistribute is one of the basis of opensource.