Seems like IBM is going to make RHEL closed source. What’s everyone’s opinion about the move? I feel RHEL is now the evil villain distro of the community.
Jesus christ. They aren’t going closed source. It’s like all these people are new to Linux and don’t understand the GPL, nor the politics behind the license.
That’s not how I understood it. I think saying “closed source” is kind of misleading.
They would have to rewrite most software if they wanted to make it closed source, otherwise they would be violating licenses
What are the implications of this move on fedora? I’ve been thinking of moving to fedora but I’m not so sure now
Well if they do go on to paywall it completely then yes my ditaste for RHEL will grow deeper than even Ubuntu
How will it be closed source, per GPL? Are they bundling in proprietary services that are required to make it run?
Does this affect Fedora?
It doesn’t seem like it, RHEL is based on Fedora. Fedora is beta RHEL more or less. But Alma, Rocky and Scientific Linux will all be in trouble as they’re based on RHEL. Or at least that’s what I make of it
As others have said, RHEL is not going closed source. They are not violating the letter of the GPL (though IMO, certainly the spirit of it).
I think this is a crappy move by RedHat/IBM and I won’t excuse it, but I will say in their defense they are one of the largest contributors to open source. Everything from the kernel to Gnome and in between. It’s a massive step back from the company they were 5 years ago, though.
