Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

Following Red Hat's decision earlier this month to limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code and that leading to downstreams scrambling to figure out their paths forward to avoid tracking CentOS Stream instead and still aiming to offer 1:1 RHEL compatibility without being restricted by the Red Hat Customer Portal, the Rocky Linux distribution today expressed a few of the ideas they are considering...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocky-Linux-RHEL-Source-Access

[skeevy420]

This is from the RHEL GPLv2 Based EULA:

2. Intellectual Property Rights. The Programs and each of their components are owned by Red Hat and other licensors and are protected
under copyright law and other laws as applicable. Title to the Programs and any component, or to any copy or modification shall remain with
Red Hat and other licensors, subject to the applicable license. The “Red Hat” mark, the individual Program marks, and the “Red Hat” logo
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat and its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. This EULA does not permit you to
distribute the Programs using Red Hat's trademarks, regardless of whether the Programs have been modified. You may make a commercial
redistribution of the Programs only if (a) permitted under a separate written agreement with Red Hat authorizing such commercial
redistribution or (b) you remove and replace all occurrences of Red Hat trademarks and logos. Modifications to the software may corrupt the
Programs. You should read the information found at http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/ before distributing a copy of the
Programs

So just patch it to remove all mentions of RHEL and their logo

Also, if anyone from RHEL is around, there at least one style issue in your trademark style guidelines. It's literally a single space. Y'all get paid to fix that so that's your hint, have fun.

[darkbasic]

One option is through the usage of UBI container images

I was thinking exactly about that because I've just created a MongoDB 6 ppc64le docker image and thought they must provide sources for that.

Never in my life I would have thought that Red Hat might fall so low.

[rawr]

This is from the RHEL GPLv2 Based EULA:



So just patch it to remove all mentions of RHEL and their logo

Also, if anyone from RHEL is around, there at least one style issue in your trademark style guidelines. It's literally a single space. Y'all get paid to fix that so that's your hint, have fun.

I don't get the point. Wasn't that the practice already?

[r1348]

This is from the RHEL GPLv2 Based EULA:



So just patch it to remove all mentions of RHEL and their logo

Also, if anyone from RHEL is around, there at least one style issue in your trademark style guidelines. It's literally a single space. Y'all get paid to fix that so that's your hint, have fun.

That's exactly what CentOS, Alma Linux and Rocky Linux (among many) have been doing.

[Shiba]

B-But... the cool kidz told me it's uncool liking the GPL nowadays!

[panikal]

What they HAVEN'T been doing is reverse engineering all the things from containers, which will soon move to obfuscate a few things (or limit functionality without a license key etc), and even just provisioning online cloud images will require linking a key to a rhn account. This is temporary and manual-labor intensive since Redhat will do something to counter this, and it shouldn't be shocking - Redhat has been clear what they are trying to accomplish and its to stop stuff like this.

[Chewi]

I don't like this. It won't end well and will just make a bad situation worse. Instead of trying to find loopholes, they should just respect Red Hat's choice and move on.

[mirmirmir]

Not-a-techbro trying to understand first paragraph
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[Nuc!eoN]

I don't like this. It won't end well and will just make a bad situation worse. Instead of trying to find loopholes, they should just respect Red Hat's choice and move on.

Move on how?