I admit I know nothing about what programs RedHat has contributed to, or what their plans are. I am only familiar with the GPL in general (I use arch, btw). So I tried to have Bing introduce me to the situation. The conversation got weird and maybe manipulative by Bing.
Can you explain to me why Bing is right and I am wrong?
It sounds like a brazen GPL violation. And if RedHat is allowed to deny a core feature of the GPL, the ability to redistribute, it will completely destroy the ability of any author to specify any license other than MIT. Perhaps Microsoft has that goal and forced Bing to support it.
That’s the reason why Canonical forced out the Kubuntu maintainers who then went on to create KDE Neon. The IP Policy originally did not contain the sentence “This does not affect your rights under any open source licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu” which means that GPL’ed binaries were also covered by that and the Kubuntu maintainers openly said that this is illegal.
This created so much backlash to Canonical, they did not dare to actually enforce the policy but the policy is still there. So all the Mints, pop_OSes, etc. of the world who distribute unmodified Ubuntu binary packages of BSD/MIT-licensed code are technically in breach of Canonical’s IP Policy.
Then why isn’t Canonical taking action against those distros?
Maybe they have their hands full in making enemies by pushing Snaps. 🤣