> I see an impasse here. Why contribute to fedora when Red Hat will lock it down in other products?
They literally cannot "Lock it down" due to the GPL. Anyone using RHEL binaries has legal right to the code.
What they seem to have done is limit source code access to those who are actually using RHEL, which is all the GPL requires. The GPL does not require you to share source code with every person on the planet, only those using your binaries.
If someone wants the source, they can sign up for a free DEV license for RHEL, and that entitles them to the source code for the RHEL things they are using.
They literally cannot "Lock it down" due to the GPL. Anyone using RHEL binaries has legal right to the code.
What they seem to have done is limit source code access to those who are actually using RHEL, which is all the GPL requires. The GPL does not require you to share source code with every person on the planet, only those using your binaries.
If someone wants the source, they can sign up for a free DEV license for RHEL, and that entitles them to the source code for the RHEL things they are using.
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 4:07 PM Philip Wyett <philip.wyett@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
Obviously many will have seen:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
and see, where EL (contributors like you of fedora/EPEL) have been knocked down:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215299
Let us face it our efforts with the Fedora project are not valued and it is a means nothing to the
new corporate IBM/Red Hat enterprise systems that we have to struggle to get access to srpms, to
make a community. What is community now to Red Hat?
I see an impasse here. Why contribute to fedora when Red Hat will lock it down in other products?
Regards
Phil
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