Jesus. Now I understand why Rocky Linux’s path forward looked a little cumbersome.
Thanks for helping me finding that text!
It is still futile, but thinking about it in this term really does leave a very bad taste. Like, I could respect them for saying “we gotta make money so we will only ship source to paying customers.” I can’t respect them for doing this dirty little trick that doesn’t actually work. Makes them look stupid.
Did RedHat say that? This is a pretty problematic statement so I would really love to see the exact text in which they set their position.
It has been reported that the support contract from RedHat says you can’t redistribute the source you receive as part of being a paid customer and they reserve the right to cancel your support contract.
Where is the report? I mean yeh if that’s what RedHat said then they have chosen the path of getting sued to oblivion, but that’s not what the initial argument is about, and that’s also not what Rocky’s new path forward indicates. (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocky-Linux-RHEL-Source-Access)
Did RedHat add that restriction? GPL requires source to be distributed along with binary, but the distributor can still decide who to distribute things to. If the only way to access binary is through being a paying customer, I don’t see why RedHat can’t say only paying customers can get access to source.
What’s the GPL violation in that, or did I misunderstand RedHat’s new policy?
Rocky has already laid out multiple paths for them to obtain sources. What’s the impact?
From day 1 I never understood how could this fundamentally affect anyone. RHEL is under GPL, so worst case you buy a license and viola.
The free as in freedom principle isn’t violated. GPL stands. So why all the rage? People call RedHat IBMified, what the hell does it even mean? Has IBM done anything to the community?
Really there is no principle being defended. People’s workflow isn’t even impacted as it stands, they just have to figure out new paths going forward.
Time won’t solve how people are. Most people will treat free as free of charge instead of freedom.
Some people can be very well educated but choose not to follow reason. For example polititions appealing to a voting base. Point is these things certainly say “what a twat” but doesn’t necessarily reflect poor education.
I didn’t know the direction either, and went with it for about 50 hours.