One question: If Red hat has been "purchased" by IBM....what happens to the GPL license?..after all IBM is a "proprietary" company. What will happen to the licensing of CEntOS?....Fedora?...truly troubling times. I might have to go down the Yellow Brick Road and take up Debian as my regular OS. 😢
EGO II
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:23 PM Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:30 PM Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/31/18 1:32 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
>>
>> as far as I can see Centos is owned by Red Hat and so by IBM if the
>> offer goes through, Guthub is owned by Microsoft. Increasing
>> concentration of services and so control is routine, just not what I'd
>> prefer to see.
>
> First off, CentOS may be _affiliated_ with Red Hat, but they are not
> _owned_ by Red Hat. CentOS is run by centos.org and is a community-
> supported program.
"The ownership of the CentOS trademarks, along with the requirement that
the board have a majority of Red Hat employees makes it clear that, for
all the talk of partnership and joining forces, this is really an
acquisition by Red Hat. The CentOS project will live on, but as a
subsidiary of Red Hat—much as Fedora is today."
from https://lwn.net/Articles/579551/
"Furthermore, some of the existing CentOS Core members are moving to
take up roles at Red Hat, as a part of their sponsorship of the CentOS
Project, allowing these people to work on the Project as their primary
job function. This includes Johnny Hughes Jr, Jim Perrin, Fabian
Arrotin, and myself. We will be working with and operating out of the
Red Hat Open Source and Standards team in the CTO's Office."
from https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html
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