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).

    • 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.