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Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ? (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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).

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[–] 21 points 3 years ago (9 children)

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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    So then Oracle just gets 1 dev account and pulls the source.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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