Red Hat Now Limiting RHEL Sources To CentOS Stream

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Red Hat Now Limiting RHEL Sources To CentOS Stream

Red Hat announced today that CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-CentOS-Stream-Sources

[Lbibass]

well... this is a bad move.

[lethalwp]

what about GPL? https://access.redhat.com/articles/5112

Isn't GPL about publishing the sources and modifications of the software used?

[jaypatelani]

Just use BSD

[Linuxxx]

And people around here honestly thought that Canonical is a bad actor in the Linux world...

[Serafean]

Rocky Linux (and relatives) should start ramping up some kind of paid support, come RHEL 10, there might be a market opening to snag up some customers.

what about GPL? https://access.redhat.com/articles/5112

Isn't GPL about publishing the sources and modifications of the software used?

To the end users of the software. As long as the customers get access to the source code, and don't have additional restrictions placed on modification and redistribution, its compliant. I see that as the beauty of the GPL.

[Vorpal]

what about GPL? https://access.redhat.com/articles/5112

Isn't GPL about publishing the sources and modifications of the software used?

I am not a lawyer, but I seem to recall hearing that GPL says you have to provide the source to anyone you provide the binaries basically.

Now, AGPL software might be more tricky, since then you have to provide the source even if you just provide a server using it (e.g. if your database engine is AGPL, then you need to provide the source for it to anyone who can access a website built on that database).

I'm not sure how AGPL would work with what Redhat is doing if any of their customers use AGPL software.

[Estranged1906]

What if you have the free individual developer license? Shouldn't you still get the source code as per the GPL?

[Barley9432]

what about GPL? https://access.redhat.com/articles/5112

Isn't GPL about publishing the sources and modifications of the software used?

GPL only requires you to make source code available if you're a customer, so this is fine

[Estranged1906]

Also I wonder what the situation is with SUSE Linux Enterprise. I'm not aware of any free version of that, neither a free license for individuals, nor a free clone like Alma for RHEL.