- cross-posted to:
- linux@kbin.social
- linux@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- linux@kbin.social
- linux@kbin.social
Some mix of wrong and right, the exact proportions of which I’ll leave as an exercise to the reader.
Some mix of wrong and right, the exact proportions of which I’ll leave as an exercise to the reader.
Whole-heartedly agree on the quote and it stuck out to me even before coming to the comments here. Redhat might not like that people are repacking “their” software, but the spirit of GPL software is that you can charge for it but folks can also go through the trouble of building it themselves should they not want to go that route and are able to support/debug/maintain the software themselves on their own hardware.
If they don’t think the clauses of GPL are fair, then they should probably stop distributing Linux entirely because their entire business model is founded off of profiting off the work of other open source contributions.
One could argue Redhat already does this on packages they have not improved or submitted contributions for.