Red Hat announced yesterday that the sources for RHEL will no longer be accessible from git.centos.org. This effectively locks their source changes behind a subscription to RHEL, that costs money.
On the plus side it’s not as if Red Hat are in charge of the all of the core system plumbing for all the major distros…oh, shit wait a minute.
Opensource licenses typically doesn’t require the software to be free, just that the source and modification be made available to users.
Making user pay to access both binaries and source is fair, as long as RedHat keep contributing code to upstream projects.
The more questionable issue though is their suggestion that they will cancel support agreements and dev accounts that redistribute their code. That seems like it’s skirting very close to violation of the letter of the GPL. It shits all over the spirit of it.
well that’s a bit of a dick move
A while ago someone shared this on !programming@beehaw.org, and it feels relevant to bring it up again.
