Red Hat just erected a paywall in front of the source code to their Linux distribution.Are they burning bridges to the wider open source ecosystem?Referenced...
An exceptionally well explained rant that I find myself in total agreement with.
I agree that they should be allowed a profit. However calling it open source when redistributing rhel code causes them to hold the right of canceling you access to the code and binary, eventhough gpl states that redistributing is a right under gpl rubs me the wrong way.
Can one discover exactly what versions of the packages is the RHEL distribution using without being a subscriber, in order to build a binary-compatible release?
Or if that information is only for subscribers, can a subscriber use that information to select the correct versions from CentOS Stream without getting their subscription agreement cancelled?
I agree that they should be allowed a profit. However calling it open source when redistributing rhel code causes them to hold the right of canceling you access to the code and binary, eventhough gpl states that redistributing is a right under gpl rubs me the wrong way.
But they’re not canceling access to the code. All that is still there under CentOS Stream.
Can one discover exactly what versions of the packages is the RHEL distribution using without being a subscriber, in order to build a binary-compatible release?
Or if that information is only for subscribers, can a subscriber use that information to select the correct versions from CentOS Stream without getting their subscription agreement cancelled?