I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).

  • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business
    22·
    2 年前

    This is a fight between IBM and Oracle. There’s been a lot of bad blood between them since Oracle did a s/Red Hat/Oracle/r for their own branded distribution.

    IMO that’s the main driver behind this change: don’t feed your largest competitor free stuff and not something specific against Rocky/Alma/whoever else is using the code.

      • nkey@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 年前

        This was my initial thought as well, but I imagine that would violate the terms of their subscription and Red Hat could just revoke their access going forward.

        • priapus@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 年前

          I doubt it would legal to make that against the terms. It GPL code, Oracle is allowed to access it as they please.

          • nkey@lemmy.ml
            6·
            2 年前

            Very true for the GPL code, but Red Hat adds code that isn’t GPL to the distro. So your downstream distros would have to cherry pick that code out.

          • exu@feditown.comEnglish
            3·
            2 年前

            They could still revoke access. The subscription probably says something like “we can revoke access for any reason”. Most subscriptions do

            • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              2 年前

              True, but what’s stopping someone from uploading it anonymously? They have to share the code with customers, but that doesn’t mean GPL doesn’t apply to non-customers. Anyone working at these companies can download the source code and upload it online.

    • squidzorz@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 年前

      They didn’t even go that far lol. There’s still Red Hat branding all over the place in Oracle Linux.