![]() The move was accompanied with free production deployment of RHEL for developers – but only up to 16 machines. In fact, what it was really doing was cutting off those that might be seen, from its perspective, as a bunch of freeloaders. Instead, it switched to offering a free test version, an announcement which it made accompanied with lots of positive-sounding language about community involvement, and so on. Having given the move time to successfully eliminate most of the clones, Red Hat then killed off its own official free version of its paid-for flagship product. That move legitimized this particular one of the several extant RHEL rebuilds, which resulted in the rest of them essentially shutting down their efforts - except of course for Oracle, which has deep pockets to fund Oracle Linux, complete with cheaper enterprise support contracts, an enhanced Btrfs-compatible kernel and so on. In a way, this could be interpreted as a logical continuation of the move made when the company brought CentOS in-house back in 2014. The key point being is that to obtain those binaries, customers – as well as developers on free accounts – must agree to a license agreement and are under the terms of a contract, which overrides the GPL license of the code itself. However, as far as we can see, the Hat is acting perfectly in accordance with the terms of the GPL, which only requires them to make source code available to people using the binaries built from them: in other words, to its paying customers. Once again, people are talking about betrayal of trust, violating the GPL, and so on. In various forums online, there are outcries from users of downstream distros… just as there was when the Hat cancelled CentOS Linux a few years ago. We suspect that the wider RHEL user community doesn't care about Stream very much, and that may be a motivation behind the latest move. Or, of course, if you want to build your own copy of RHEL. It's much less useful if you just want to run RHEL without paying. Which is handy if you are a partner company developing products or drivers to run on RHEL, or you're a customer who wants to know what's going to come next. You don't get that with CentOS Stream: It's a preview of the future of RHEL. This is very bad news for downstream projects which rebuild the RHEL source code to produce compatible distributions, such as AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, EuroLinux, and Oracle Unbreakable Linux. However, we've contacted the Red Hat press office, and the company confirmed that the release does say what we got out from reading between the lines. ![]() In the opinion of the Reg FOSS Desk, the blog post itself is so full of corporate language that it borders on obfuscatory. In other words, only paying customers will be able to obtain the source code to Red Hat Enterprise Linux… And under the terms of their contracts with the Hat, that means that they can't publish it. From now on it will only be available to customers - who can't legally share it.Ī superficially modest blog post from a senior Hatter announces that going forward, the company will only publish the source code of its CentOS Stream product to the world. It does not store any personal data.Comment Red Hat has decided to stop making the source code of RHEL available to the public. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]()
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