Re: What is Fedora?

[JT <jt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  Who says that developer account will be available soon, Have Red Hat made a commitment to keep it?
> People want to update a system and not fart about, updating via ISO or installing a new system every 6 months is a joke.

You can download ISOs without a dev account.  Someone could easily get the SRPMS as they are entitled to have and compile them and make a 3rd party repo that everyone could add and update from, so people wouldn't have to re-install.  My point is that Red Hat is not able to lock down the code because of the GPL.  There will always be a way around anything they try to put in place.

People in the FLOSS world really care about this stuff and are also really stubborn... if Red Hat tries to do anything like this, there will be thousands of people that will come together to work around everything Red Hat attempts to put in place to block people.

Don't worry, take a deep breath and relax, the code will remain open source and it will remain freely available.  

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 4:56 PM Philip Wyett <philip.wyett@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 16:49 -0400, JT wrote:
> >  I believe the GPL asks you never have to make agreement to access GPL code.
>
> Correct.  Per the GPL if you have the binary you have a legal right to the code. 
> Also the GPL does contain clauses that stipulate that outside agreements cannot excuse anyone
> from the conditions of the license, see the No Surrender of Others' Freedom section.
>
> Also keep in mind that you can download the RHEL ISOs for free without a dev license from this
> page: https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download  You can't update the packages, but
> you can install that version of RHEL on your computer and use it.  So anyone grabbing that ISO
> has legal right to the source code for the base system.
>
>

Who says that developer account will be available soon, Have Red Hat made a commitment to keep it?

People want to update a system and not fart about, updating via ISO or installing a new system
every 6 months is a joke.

Regards

Phil

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