Seems like IBM is going to make RHEL closed source. What's everyone's opinion about the move? I feel RHEL is now the evil villain distro of the community.
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OsrsNeedsF2P 19 points 3 years ago
Ah,
paying customers will be able to obtain the source code to Red Hat Enterprise Linux… And under the terms of their contracts with the Hat, that means that they can't publish it.
This follows GPL
AlmightySnoo 13 points 3 years ago
This follows GPL
I'm a GPL noob, can someone elaborate on this? My belief was always that if you get your hands on GPL licensed software then you have the right to redistribute it under the same license for free or even charge for it.
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Decent breakdown from The Register:
https://www.theregister.com/...
Seems they have been quite focused on the embrace, extend, extinguish plan for a decade or so.
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