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...this completes what appears to be a decade-long plan by Red Hat to maximize the level of difficulty of those in the community who wish to “trust but verify” that RHEL complies with the GPL agreements. Namely, Red Hat has badly thwarted efforts by entities such as Rocky Linux and Alma Linux. These entities are de-facto the intellectual successors to CentOS Linux project that Red Hat carefully dismantled over the last decade

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

I wonder why SFC doesn't sue Redhat. Are they afraid of the GPL losing power? I'm not a Redhat user, but I respect the history (before 2014).

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

There's nothing to sue for. They have only «broken» the spirit of the GPL, not the letter.