On Sunday, 25 June 2023 at 02:44, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 6:09 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > >> > >> Josh Boyer wrote: > >> > Agree with Matthew fully here. We've been working rather hard > >> > internally to adjust the development process for RHEL to be more > >> > collaborative and open than it ever has before. > >> > >> The *development process* is more open, but the production > >> releases, which is the only thing end users are interested in, are > >> less open! > > > > Actually, this is not true either. Since December 2020, Red Hat > > Enterprise Linux has added a number of avenues in which you can > > freely get it: > > > > 1. Individuals (16 entitlements, prod use permitted): > > https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux > > > > 2. Teams (mucho entitlements for companies, no prod): > > https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/05/10/access-rhel-developer-teams-subscription > > > > 3. OSS projects running their own infra (mucho entitlements, prod > > use permitted): > > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/extending-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux-open-source-organizations > > That is not "open", it is just free as in beer, for a restricted > subset of people. If you are not (explicitly! Not just "try and hope > we do not terminate your subscription at our whim") entitled to share > the SRPMs, it is NOT open. The FOSS licenses give you the right to share the SRPMS, sans the Red Hat trademarks. Red Hat's terms of use for their subscriptions state explicitly (in several places), that: [...] This Agreement establishes the rights and obligations associated with Red Hat Products and is not intended to limit your rights to software code under the terms of an open source license. [...] So, unless you have some specific and verifiable examples, please stop spreading FUD. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue