A 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. 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.
AFAIK, the source is still available with a free Developer License from Red Hat. Still annoying AF, though.
That sounds like a “restriction” on distribution of GPLv3 licensed code
Yeah, it kinda does. Idk what they’re thinking, lol
What stops one person with a free account from mirroring the source?
From TFA:
How are those licenses not in violation of GPLv3, which explicitly prohibits all forms of “restriction” on redistribution?
Got it.
I don’t see how that could comply with the terms of the GPL.
I don’t think all the code there is GPL. A lot of it is MIT, BSD, Apache, etc.
Idk, I don’t think they’re trying to kill downstreams. IMHO, they’re just cleaning things up. Why should the RHEL source be in the CentOS repos?