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Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes (www.redhat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by SFaulken@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't abide by the terms of the GPL, you do not have permission to modify and redistribute code licensed under it. That means that their entire OS is stolen, and they are selling software they have zero rights to.

Allowing companies to get away with it fundamentally destroys the principles of open source code. Sharing literally every modification they distribute with literally zero restrictions that aren't part of the GPL isn't some nice to have. It's unconditionally mandatory to have any rights to touch the code at all.

[–] SFaulken@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's how you read the GPL, you might be right.

When I read the GPL, and I have read it a number of times over the years, while I might find what RedHat has chosen to do to be distasteful, I don't find it in violation of the GPL. It's entirely possible that I'm wrong.

But I'm not a legal expert by any stretch of the imagination, are you?