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Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ?

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Thoughts on RHEL going closed source ?

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Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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).

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RHEL technically isn’t going “closed source”, the source code will just be paywalled now. Despite being a dick move from RedHat, it is perfectly legal to do under GPLv2, as far as I understand anyways…

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