AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change
AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change
Posted Jun 26, 2023 9:15 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change by xslogic
Parent article: AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change
> Doesn't matter that they don't forbid it, as the GP puts it, the GPL specifically forbids adding further restrictions. (Which, I'd strongly argue, this is) Besides which, it makes it mildly negligent to use Red Hat for any product you sell to a third party. (Because you yourself cannot distribute the code to the third party without breaking Red Hats rules...)
Oh - and another little legal nit, they CAN'T be ADDing restrictions, because you have absolutely no GPL rights at the point at which you agree not to re-distribute source, because you don't have any source to distribute!
You may not like it, but at the end of the day EVERYTHING you get from Red Hat is freely available elsewhere. Like in many other industries, they are an integrator. What you are paying for is RH's value-add, and they have every right not to want their competitors to take advantage of it and use it against them.
Cheers,
Wol
Posted Jun 26, 2023 13:59 UTC (Mon)
by paulj (subscriber, #341)
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Incorrect, when the value they add relies on taking software owned by many other people and packaging it.
Their rights there are limited to the permissions given by the copyright holders, within the area of acts that copyright holders can control with licenses.
AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change