I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).

  • priapus
    4·
    2 年前

    I doubt it would legal to make that against the terms. It GPL code, Oracle is allowed to access it as they please.

    • nkey@lemmy.ml
      6·
      2 年前

      Very true for the GPL code, but Red Hat adds code that isn’t GPL to the distro. So your downstream distros would have to cherry pick that code out.

      • priapus
        1·
        2 年前

        If the code they’re adding isn’t protected by GPL they no have obligation to release it at all, and with these changes they probably won’t.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      They could still revoke access. The subscription probably says something like “we can revoke access for any reason”. Most subscriptions do

      • priapusEnglish
        2·
        2 年前

        True, but what’s stopping someone from uploading it anonymously? They have to share the code with customers, but that doesn’t mean GPL doesn’t apply to non-customers. Anyone working at these companies can download the source code and upload it online.