On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 16:23 -0400, JT wrote: > Red Hat doesn't need to mention it. It's a legal requirement of the GPL... anyone using the > binaries has legal right to the source code. > > As for Red Hat cancelling users accounts who pull the source build binaries and share it... > that'd probably land them in a lawsuit, because as long as that person who originally downloaded > the code has the binaries... they are legally entitled to the source for them for as long as they > have the binaries. > > Furthermore, anyone who shares a binary they build from RH sources... has a legal requirement to > share the source onto the next person. > > These are precisely the type of issues with the MIT/BSD license that Stallman wanted to address > with the GPL. > > Red Hat could terminate the dev license... and put RHEL entirely behind a paywall, but they have > not stated that they are doing so. And I would imagine that they would get a ton of backlash if > they did considering that was how they addressed the reaction the CentOS/CentOS Stream change. > But even if they did that, they still have to provide source to anyone with the binaries. So all > it would take is one person buying a license, and then releasing the code. > Even if Red Hat banned that account, there would just be another account to do the same thing > again. Red Hat would have to play whack-a-mole to try to stop people from doing that constantly. > > > Whack-a-mole is not what we want to play and we are aware of MIT and GPL licenses. What the community needs is a free source of entry. I believe the GPL asks you never have to make agreement to access GPL code. However Red Hat have not defined what a customer and partner is, but this requires having a Red Hat account which requires agreeing to terms etc. to access the srpms. Regards Phil -- *** Playing the game for the games own sake. *** Associations: * Debian Maintainer (DM) * Fedora/EPEL Maintainer. * Contributor member of the AlmaLinux foundation. WWW: https://kathenas.org Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg Twitter: @kathenasorg Instagram: @kathenasorg IRC: kathenas GPG: 724AA9B52F024C8B
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