Redhat goes CLOSED SOURCE?
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This is a MAJOR development with Redhat NO LONGER giving public access to the base RHEL source code. Support My Work-----------------------------------------...

Potentially this means that Fedora and CentOS stream do not get timely updates implemented in RHEL.

Canonical must be throwing a party, and I bet SUSE is not hating it either

      • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Quoted from my other post: Well in order to access the CentOS stream repo you need to have a subscription. So really not closed source but rather “harder-to-view-the-source”.

        • Carl George@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          Well in order to access the CentOS stream repo you need to have a subscription.

          That’s false. The sources are right here, open to the world and open for contribution. What was shut down was the automation to export RHEL source RPMs to the legacy location. The source RPM exports were pretty much useless for contributors and maintainers of RHEL and CentOS. However, they were critical for RHEL rebuilds, which is why people are upset.

        • ReCursing@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          That’s not closed sourced, it’s just not free (or libre). I mean it still seems like a bad move to me, a retrograde step, but it won’t hurt the business side of things I expect

          • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            Well, thats youtube sensationalism for you. Rocky Linux has already said it shouldn’t affect them and if they’re good I doubt there will be much issue.

    • exohuman@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It said that they were moving to centos stream as the main repository and code can be gotten from there. What makes this closed source? Is centos stream dependent on closed source?

      • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Well in order to access the CentOS stream repo you need to have a subscription. So really not closed source but rather “harder-to-view-the-source”.