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Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ?

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I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).

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priapus@sh.itjust.works
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I doubt it would legal to make that against the terms. It GPL code, Oracle is allowed to access it as they please.

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nkey@lemmy.ml
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Very true for the GPL code, but Red Hat adds code that isn’t GPL to the distro. So your downstream distros would have to cherry pick that code out.

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exu@feditown.com
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They could still revoke access. The subscription probably says something like “we can revoke access for any reason”. Most subscriptions do

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priapus@sh.itjust.works
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True, but what’s stopping someone from uploading it anonymously? They have to share the code with customers, but that doesn’t mean GPL doesn’t apply to non-customers. Anyone working at these companies can download the source code and upload it online.

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