• d3Xt3r@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t seen this in person so I can only speculate, but I bet they’ll only provide the sources as a tarball or something instead of a git repo, which will make it a PITA for anyone do actually do anything useful with it. I mean, you could potentially still build a full distro from it, but you wouldn’t be able to feasibly maintain it without the ability to do a sync and merge from upstream. So this way, Red Hat achieves their goal of being able to kill any spinoff distro, whilst still remaining compliant with the GPL.

    • The_Pete@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      Additionally, they have to release sources for the projects but not necessarily for things like the spec files or the rpms.

      Here’s the source for the kernel . . . .

      Thanks I can get that from kernel.org

      It’s the part that’s not GPL that’s the value add here.

    • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s not a “they will.” Red Hat customers are able to download source rpms from the repository or the site, this has been the case for a very long time. It is possible to clone / sync the repository, this is how airgapped networks can still host their own.