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Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bacteriostat@lemmy.one to c/foss

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[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why is RedHat even bothering to do this shit in the first place though?

[–] Prymu 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As with everything if you don't know why it is probably money

[–] DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no 10 points 1 year ago

I.E. Daddy IBM wants more

[–] ndr 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They think having downstream distros that repackage their software without adding anything is useless, and they want more customers. I get it, but meh.

Also, it doesn’t help that they communicated it poorly making it sound worse than it actually is.

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[–] dark_stang 2 points 1 year ago

[–] furrowsofar 2 points 1 year ago

Frankly this is why GPL and LGPL are so important. So for those that have wondered why GPL and LGPL are written like it is, this is why.

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