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Rocky wants to continue getting RHEL sources via public cloud instances and/or via UBI container images (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by kwozyman to c/[email protected]

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While I disagree with Red Hat's decision to hinder source access, this move from Rocky (a commercial company!) seems even more disingenuous, imho.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

While I disagree with Red Hat’s decision to hinder source access, this move from Rocky (a commercial company!) seems even more disingenuous, imho.

Why on earth is it disingenuous? RedHat is openly stating its intent to violate the GPL. Rocky is telling them "good luck with that." RedHat wants to be the only game in town providing service contracts. Rocky is saying "no thanks; we're sticking around."

[–] kwozyman 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't think Red Hat is violating GPL. For sure it's not violating the legal terms of it (I'm fairly certain the army of lawyers RH and IBM have at their beck and call made sure of that) and I don't think it's violating it's spirit (at least not yet) -- they are still contributing any changes and their customers still get access to the source code. And (for now!) it doesn't even seem they are making it super difficult to do so either. The way I see it, RH wants to be the only game in town providing service contracts for their own product which is fair game, imho. The problem with Rocky is that they also stand to make money out of the same source code which is the disingenuous part, in my opinion.

I honestly don't know why Rocky made this announcement, even if their intentions are noble, they do come out as the bad guys in all this mess. They could have simply put out some generic announcement that "we are working towards a legal way" and kept doing what they are doing.

And to be clear: I believe the true people that stand to lose in this are the users and the community. I've been a user of CentOS (the old style, not this new breed of RHEL beta) for a long time and even an occasional Rocky user in recent times, but that will have to change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I agree, the community will be the ones who suffer from this.

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