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A superficially modest blog post from a senior Hatter announces that going forward, the company will only publish the source code of its CentOS Stream product to the world. In other words, only paying customers will be able to obtain the source code to Red Hat Enterprise Linux… And under the terms of their contracts with the Hat, that means that they can't publish it.

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[–] livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.com 9 points 1 year ago (19 children)

How does this work with the code license? If this is all fine, doesn't this mean that we should be avoiding the kind of license they're using in the future?

[–] copolymer__@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

AFAIK, the source is still available with a free Developer License from Red Hat. Still annoying AF, though.

[–] 13zero@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What stops one person with a free account from mirroring the source?

[–] copolymer__@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Idk, I don't think they're trying to kill downstreams. IMHO, they're just cleaning things up. Why should the RHEL source be in the CentOS repos?

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