I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).
I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).
Someone enlighten me. What are we talking about? The whole distro? Isn’t almost all of it GNU stuff under GPL or similar licenses?
Or is it just about some in-house made RH applications and patches done without any collaboration from outside people?
I don’t get it how a Linux-based project can go closed-source after ~30 years.
Ed: Oh ok so I guess they’re just closing their own fork repos to outsiders? That’s quite a different thing than “closed source”, dammit
To comply with GPL, RedHat simply has to provide source code to anyone they provide binaries to.
Yea, so why is everyone misrepresenting these news so damn hard? I’d think people who report on Linux would understand the core basics of GPL.
Because clickbait works
RedHat could just not do business with the RHEL rebuilds and there’d be no obligation to share the source with them.
The source can be open, just not easy to access…send an email and in 30 days they provide it, they are not obligated to have everything available instantly as they do now or provide an infrastructure to make life easy for community projects.
They could also mix in proprietary code to make things more awkward afaik.
I’d bear in mind in-house made applications RH provide include systemd, wayland, pipewire & gnome…as long as your distro and use case don’t depend on any of these, there’s no need to worry.
I guess that makes sense, didn’t figure that. I thought it would just mean “code read only to outsiders”, but yea they could make life difficult for people.
Ok so… More corporate enshitification. While I don’t know shit about RH, it sounds like the only way is to cut them off, like we did with Reddit.