Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
Posted Jun 29, 2023 14:40 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model by pizza
Parent article: Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
Note, too, that the fix may well be published upstream already (possibly even by Red Hat employees), and RH are simply applying it to the RHEL package.
In this circumstance, it's no more "withholding" a fix than Debian "withholds" fixes that are present in the latest upstream release but not in the most recent Debian package.