gobbling871@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoOracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not Towww.oracle.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: foss@beehaw.orglinux@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareShiningWing@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoWhy do you think it would? Oracle rebranding RHEL and selling it as their own distro in direct competition with Red Hat is no doubt the biggest reason they made this change in the first place
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey could just charge for-profit companies instead. There would be ways to get around that, but then again, there are ways to get around the current implementation too
minus-squaretwitterfluechtling@lemmy.pathoris.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago They could just charge for-profit companies instead. How? The whole point of the GPL is that they can’t.
Why do you think it would? Oracle rebranding RHEL and selling it as their own distro in direct competition with Red Hat is no doubt the biggest reason they made this change in the first place
They could just charge for-profit companies instead.
There would be ways to get around that, but then again, there are ways to get around the current implementation too
How? The whole point of the GPL is that they can’t.