Wonder how this affects direct RHEL copies such as Rocky or Alma.
I was at Red Hat when they moved CentOS to Stream and a lot of us were VERY unhappy about it. Kind of knew the writing was on the wall for them when Red Hat hugged them closer.
I don’t get this move, other than to fight direct copies of RHEL, such as Rocky or even Oracle. This might push those folks to have to follow CentOS stream, which is NOT RHEL.
Though I don’t know how the copies do their builds now.
Shouldn’t affect them much, it just means they’ll need a single RHEL subscription.
Wonder if a dev subscription is enough.
Legally they must provide source to anyone they provide binaries to.
It would count as an unauthorized use of the subscription, so Red Hat wouldn’t keep doing business with them, and wouldn’t receive new binaries.
That sounds like a giant GPL violation if sources are provided under the condition that you don’t use them.
Come someone smart tell me if this violates GPL?
No.
It’s GPL compliant, so there’s no problem. It’s a good thing for companies to explore a variety of business models that are FLOSS-compatible.
Generous donors may as well pay for it then share source code to Rocky/Alma
