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RedHat has announced that it will no longer make RHEL source code available publicly 😱

According to RedHat/IBM, “CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases.” For people who buy RHEL, “Red Hat customers and partners can access RHEL sources via the customer and partner portals, in accordance with their subscription agreement.” The problem is that the subscription agreement forbids redistribution of that source code, meaning that while technically and legally the source can be shared, RedHat would then cancel your subscription.

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20 thoughts on “RedHat has announced that it will no longer make RHEL source code available publicly 😱”

  • Is this decision even legal? 😡
    I can see this setting Linux back decades.
    Mayne I'm just not the right person to be making predictions about these things.

  • Is that, legal? That source code doesn’t belong to them.

  • There were no problems with closed source unix oses, there shouldn’t be with RedHat

  • Is it even legal, I thought they were legally required to release under the same license

  • They won't admit it's a mistake, they will just slowly die and think it's evidence they had no choice

  • It's not just the issue of this is not just access for downstream products, you have to wonder what shady code they're going to insert into RHEL

  • IBM won't back a milimeter. Them don't give a fudge about the community.
    They care by their corporate clients that are too deep in RHEL to change now

    Remeber that IBM is the OG of FUD ("no body got fired for buying IBM")

  • Way to go IBM. Make open source proprietary. You Shame the Linux OS.

  • This is misleading. RHEL is feee up to 16 licenses with FREE Developer subscriptions. But putting the code behind the subscription wall makes it so Red Hat is not just doing all the work for other companies to steal their operating system. It is open source and free for non enterprise users. The same way you used CentOS will basically still be possible for free personal use.

  • Thank goodness we have so many other choices in the Linux world.

  • All that "SUSE looking mighty". That thing with closed public code SUSE Linux Enterprise Server did that FOR YEARS!

  • Yeah trying to understand how this is legal. And I can’t. Yep this is illegal. Well boys get we gotta sharpen up our lawyers and start that doom music – some gpl violators gotta get punished

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