▲ 43 ▼ Red Hat paywall?! How the Raleigh giant divided the open source community. (www.newsobserver.com) submitted 2 years ago by wiki_me@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) Thought the GPL theoretically forbade this. No? Licensing is not a strong suit of mine... permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] gnumdk@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago The code is available as git, you just don't have access to src.rpm. permalink fedilink source parent [–] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Not what they did on the surface (limiting source to only customers). That’s allowed by the GPL. But they went beyond that which imo makes them non-compliant. RH will cancel your access/agreement if you share the GPL’d source with others. That’s directly forbidden by section 6 of the GPLv2. RH is free to cancel your agreement when they want, but not because you exercised your rights under the GPL. Once your agreement is canceled, you also lose access to the matching source for other GPL’d packages installed on your system. RH could offer other methods to be in compliance, but as far as I know, they have not. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gnumdk@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago The code is available as git, you just don't have access to src.rpm. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Not what they did on the surface (limiting source to only customers). That’s allowed by the GPL. But they went beyond that which imo makes them non-compliant. RH will cancel your access/agreement if you share the GPL’d source with others. That’s directly forbidden by section 6 of the GPLv2. RH is free to cancel your agreement when they want, but not because you exercised your rights under the GPL. Once your agreement is canceled, you also lose access to the matching source for other GPL’d packages installed on your system. RH could offer other methods to be in compliance, but as far as I know, they have not. permalink fedilink source parent