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  • But anyone with access to source code licensed under GPL can legally redistribute said source code. One of the fundamental freedoms is that if you are given GPL-licensed source code, you can modify and redistribute it as much as you like.

    I think the real problem might be that some of the work from Red Hat doesn’t fall under the GPL, hence this wouldn’t apply, but I’m not sure.

    Or what if they only distribute it to companies that sign an agreement not to redistribute? Then they have the right to redistribute according to the GPL, but if they do, Red Hat will kick them out. This would seem like a way to circumvent the fundamental ideas behind the GPL and free software. If they do this, I can no longer be supportive of Red Hat in any way, and will likely have to distro-hop away from Fedora due to this misalignment of ideology.






  • In Belgium we have a similar system, also fully open source. It’s pretty cool that different countries are going to be using the same system soon.

    The only thing that worries me is that the EU has this habit of creating open source libraries and releasing it under a permissive license, which is then incorporated in proprietary apps. This also happened with the corona contact tracing. Germany made their app open source, Belgium didn’t, but I could just use the German app instead.

    Another example is the Belgian eID stuff. Anything government related uses the open source tech, but ISPs and banks made their own proprietary app that does the same thing, and then everyone started using this crap. Now, the government started paying a third party to make yet another proprietary app that does the same thing, but no one cares about it or uses it.