AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change

Posted Jul 12, 2023 13:52 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change by madscientist
Parent article: AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change

> The theory under test is that if you don't redistribute the source, or redistribute to only certain people or in certain ways, RH will continue support you. If you do redistribute the source to certain other people, or in certain other ways, they will stop supporting you. The response is that this is against the intent, at least, of the GPL; I will leave the legalities up to others. The GPL (famously) doesn't allow you to make any sort of distinction based on the uses that the software will be put to: you either provide source and you don't restrict them from redistributing it, or you can't distribute at all.

The GPL *DOES*, however, EXPLICITLY allow charging for support, iirc. So if you help people dodge paying, you are acting *against* the explicit intent of the GPL (else why would it mention it?).

Cheers,
Wol