https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/
I suspect if they are not acting in accordance with the law, Oracle's lawyers will let them know shortly.
Seems unlikely IBM have announced this to the world without checking the GPL first.
knowncarbage
joined 1 year ago
I'm not new to linux but the GPL seems quite complicated and I couldn't even tell you which GPL Redhat subscribe to without going to check.
RHEL may not be going 'closed source' but they are closing down the channels to access the code and will prosecute any customers who distribute the code.
Decent breakdown from The Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/
Seems they have been quite focused on the embrace, extend, extinguish plan for a decade or so.
37yr old Richard Stallman
You've got it!
People just won't lie about ill gotten gains, tax returns or funding on lemmy instances. The green bar will be truth.
A little, but keeping options open. My Gentoo and Void machines seem like they will survive a Redhat power grab but I'd have to figure out 4k playback elsewhere on my rpi if they decide to break things as that's my current weakpoint.
I'm keeping an eye on BSD but feel there's still a lot of potential in linux; musl, toybox & s6 are doing good work. If RedHat manage to break Gentoo everything is fucked and I need to flee to BSD but I don't think they are capable of that yet.
I'm hoping Discord is passing phase I can largely ignore. I will deal with it if I need to but it seems like world of proprietary crapware.
Slightly faster performance doesn't seem like a great reason to swallow Red Hat code at the moment.
Reddit was maintained by unpaid mods. It it now being shat on by unpaid mods.
I appreciate the need for funding I just don't see the 'funds health bar' being useful fediverse server feature.
Awesome & thank you, makes sense.
I'm freeloading from FMHY, kbin.social and mastondon.uk as I try to figure out how this works and been playing around with self hosting instances, this is interesting.
A small fee for a safe and reliable place seems reasonable, cheers for the post :)
The RHEL approach seems to involve only supplying source code to customers already consuming binaries who will already be under other restrictions as they have agreeded to other T&C's.
RHEL has been moving towards this for a decade, it seems unlikely they have forgotten about the GPL.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/
The Register seems to think they are acting perfectly in line with the GPL.