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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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