As the CentOS Stream community grows and the enterprise software world tackles new dynamics, we want to sharpen our focus on CentOS Stream as the backbone of enterprise Linux innovation. We are continuing our investment in and increasing our commitment to CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases.
This seems to really harm the AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux projects. Thoughts?
I’m wondering just how much this could affect Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux. If they purchase a license to run RHEL, wouldn’t they be able to get access to the source anyway? Not sure how feasible that is.
Unfortunately the way we understand it today, Red Hat’s user interface agreements indicate that re-publishing sources acquired through the customer portal would be a violation of those agreements.
I’m wondering just how much this could affect Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux. If they purchase a license to run RHEL, wouldn’t they be able to get access to the source anyway? Not sure how feasible that is.
Edit: Apparently that’s not a possible solution, according to the AlmaLinux OS Foundation: