I think they’ll still be compliant as long as they offer their source to customers. The GPL doesn’t require that you make source available to anyone, but to anyone that you distribute binaries to. From the GNU website:
One of the fundamental requirements of the GPL is that when you distribute object code to users, you must also provide them with a way to get the source.
Source: Quick GPLv3 Guide under the More Ways for Developers to Provide Source section.
Of course the GPL also allows redistribution of source code, and Red Hat seems to want to threaten customers who do so.
Yeah, preventing your users from redistribution this is where they might get into trouble and the GPL license would be retracted and thus they would have pirated the software. But someone would need to prove it in court and IBM has a couple of good lawyers.
Which I imagine (though I’m not a lawyer) that cutting service agreements for redstribtion may violate. Even if a court wouldn’t see it as a violation, it certainly is in spirit.
Red Hat’s definitely viewing libre licenses as a threat to them, since it allows distributions like Oracle, Alma, and Rocky to continue to exist.
I think they’ll still be compliant as long as they offer their source to customers. The GPL doesn’t require that you make source available to anyone, but to anyone that you distribute binaries to. From the GNU website:
Source: Quick GPLv3 Guide under the More Ways for Developers to Provide Source section.
Of course the GPL also allows redistribution of source code, and Red Hat seems to want to threaten customers who do so.
Yeah, preventing your users from redistribution this is where they might get into trouble and the GPL license would be retracted and thus they would have pirated the software. But someone would need to prove it in court and IBM has a couple of good lawyers.
Also this.
Which I imagine (though I’m not a lawyer) that cutting service agreements for redstribtion may violate. Even if a court wouldn’t see it as a violation, it certainly is in spirit.
Red Hat’s definitely viewing libre licenses as a threat to them, since it allows distributions like Oracle, Alma, and Rocky to continue to exist.