From this article that I just saw in this thread, it looks like they made their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code unavailable without a subscription through the Red Hat Customer Portal (which I believe requires payment). Essentially it seems that it has gone proprietary.
I’m not 100% in the know on this situation though, so hopefully someone more informed can provide a better answer.
It’s not really proprietary. The code is still open. They’ve just locked it behind a paywall. There is the developer subscription that anyone can get 1 or a few of, can’t remember, so you still have access to it. Legally, based on the GPL, they HAVE to give access to their customers.
They also do contribute back upstreams.
But there are somethings they basically put together behind the scenes that would be very difficult for you to do yourself.
I wouldn’t say it seems like they’ve completely gone proprietary because customers still have access to the source code. You may still be able to have access with a free developer account, but I don’t know for sure. Outside of that all of this is news to me as well.
From this article that I just saw in this thread, it looks like they made their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code unavailable without a subscription through the Red Hat Customer Portal (which I believe requires payment). Essentially it seems that it has gone proprietary.
I’m not 100% in the know on this situation though, so hopefully someone more informed can provide a better answer.
It’s not really proprietary. The code is still open. They’ve just locked it behind a paywall. There is the developer subscription that anyone can get 1 or a few of, can’t remember, so you still have access to it. Legally, based on the GPL, they HAVE to give access to their customers.
They also do contribute back upstreams.
But there are somethings they basically put together behind the scenes that would be very difficult for you to do yourself.
I wouldn’t say it seems like they’ve completely gone proprietary because customers still have access to the source code. You may still be able to have access with a free developer account, but I don’t know for sure. Outside of that all of this is news to me as well.