From now on, only CentOS Stream's source code is available to all

Red Hat has made RHEL closed source. This sparked much controversy and Oracle did a write up to accuse Red Hat’s actions.

Do we consider Red Hat to be on some anti-open-source scheme? Should we boycott Fedora and other Red Hat-sponsored distros that are used to create this closed source distro? (And I’m not sure if RH’s actions has violated the GPL.)

Maybe community-made distros like NixOS or Debian secured with Kicksecure will be better recommendations?

  • ursakhiin@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Generally, I approve of it. RHEL customers should be able to migrate to SEL fairly easily if they want but there would be some caveats in tooling changes based on kernel version.

    Having a hard RHEL fork would make that transition easier for customers that want to leave Red Hat.

    The open source drama isn’t going to be something most Red Hat contract signers care about, though. So SUSE will have make the transition more appealing in other ways.