RHEL source availability: Questions over whether Red Hat is violating GPL (UPDATED)
This licence allows modification and redistribution of source code, but makes it obligatory for such distributors to provide a means for the targets of the distributing to obtain a copy of the modified code. In Red Hat's case, it now appears to be an open question of whether the company is really meeting this requirement.
Moderated by SFC policy fellow Bradley Kuhn, the panel included AlmaLinux board chair Benny Vasquez, Samba co-founder and CIQ software engineer Jeremy Allison, and Oracle chief architect for Open Source Policy, Strategy, Compliance, and Alliances, James Wright.
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His post was prompted by Red Hat's decision on 21 June to announce that from that day onwards, only those who bought RHEL licences from the company would have access to the distribution's source code.
{loadposition sam08}As background, a project named CentOS was distributing RHEL without Red Hat's trademarks — the only proprietary bits — until Red Hat bought the project and took it in-house in 2014.