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Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by xylan@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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The new license terms for RHEL are structured to stop subscribers from exercising their rights under the GPL. For now they are still providing source code albeit in a less convenient form, but technically they only need to do this for GPL licenses packages and they could remove code for BSD /MIT / Apache licensed packages.

Do these developments make you more.inclined to distribute your software under a copyleft license or are you happy with something more open?

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[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used to think that maybe I'll give Fedora a try some day. Not any more.

[–] staticlifetime@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure why you'd say that. Fedora is a lot more than just Red Hat, and there are no changes to the way that works.

[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's ultimately a product of Red Hat. I don't want anything to do with that company any more.

[–] staticlifetime@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

No, it's ultimately a product of all the community that works on it. Red Hat doesn't drive the ship.