On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 16:23 -0400, JT wrote:
Red Hat doesn't need to mention it. It's a legal requirement
of the GPL... anyone using the
binaries has legal right to the source code.
As for Red Hat cancelling users accounts who pull the source build binaries and share
it...
that'd probably land them in a lawsuit, because as long as that person who originally
downloaded
the code has the binaries... they are legally entitled to the source for them for as long
as they
have the binaries.
Furthermore, anyone who shares a binary they build from RH sources... has a legal
requirement to
share the source onto the next person.
These are precisely the type of issues with the MIT/BSD license that Stallman wanted to
address
with the GPL.
Red Hat could terminate the dev license... and put RHEL entirely behind a paywall, but
they have
not stated that they are doing so. And I would imagine that they would get a ton of
backlash if
they did considering that was how they addressed the reaction the CentOS/CentOS Stream
change.
But even if they did that, they still have to provide source to anyone with the binaries.
So all
it would take is one person buying a license, and then releasing the code.
Even if Red Hat banned that account, there would just be another account to do the same
thing
again. Red Hat would have to play whack-a-mole to try to stop people from doing that
constantly.
Whack-a-mole is not what we want to play and we are aware of MIT and GPL licenses. What
the
community needs is a free source of entry. I believe the GPL asks you never have to make
agreement
to access GPL code. However Red Hat have not defined what a customer and partner is, but
this
requires having a Red Hat account which requires agreeing to terms etc. to access the
srpms.
Regards
Phil
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