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Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by xylan@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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The new license terms for RHEL are structured to stop subscribers from exercising their rights under the GPL. For now they are still providing source code albeit in a less convenient form, but technically they only need to do this for GPL licenses packages and they could remove code for BSD /MIT / Apache licensed packages.

Do these developments make you more.inclined to distribute your software under a copyleft license or are you happy with something more open?

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[–] free@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So as a casual fedora user what does this mean? Closed sourced code/apps? No more updates? Tx

[–] Mr_Figtree@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For Fedora users it changes nothing at all. Fedora is upstream from Enterprise Linux. There's no practical reason you'd want to switch to a different distribution, just maybe a personal one if you strongly dislike what Red Hat is doing to the RHEL clones.

[–] free@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tx bud 👍 I only use fedora due to newer apps compared to linux mint. I guess opensuse can do the same. Arch not a fan.