Linux & Open Source News@tlenewspodcast

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Jun 25, 2023

This week, we have #RedHat restricting access to the source code for RHEL (technically not illegal, but very likely unethical), we have a big progress report on #KDE #Plasma 6, and the beta for Linux Mint 21.2, which is a way bigger update than its small number bump

Talya (she/her) @Yuvalne@433.world

Jun 25, 2023

@tlenewspodcast I still don't understand how Red Hat's move is legal. GPL allows you to redistribute the code with modifications, and even resell it. Sure, you may put the code behind a paywall, but users may still bring the content out of the paywall, is that not the case?

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Linux & Open Source News@tlenewspodcast

Jul 1, 2023

Apparently, the loophole would be that you could decide to ignore their terms and conditions, and redistribute the code. You'd be booted as a client, but you'd still get the code and can share it this way.

You could also argue that the code is still available, in the CentOS Stream repos, although it's not a snapshot of RHEL code, the code used to build an exact version of RHEL is mixed in with other patches that only CentOS Stream gets.

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