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).

  • nkey@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 年前

    This was my initial thought as well, but I imagine that would violate the terms of their subscription and Red Hat could just revoke their access going forward.

    • priapus@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 年前

      I doubt it would legal to make that against the terms. It GPL code, Oracle is allowed to access it as they please.

      • nkey@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 年前

        Very true for the GPL code, but Red Hat adds code that isn’t GPL to the distro. So your downstream distros would have to cherry pick that code out.

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
        3·
        1 年前

        They could still revoke access. The subscription probably says something like “we can revoke access for any reason”. Most subscriptions do

        • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 年前

          True, but what’s stopping someone from uploading it anonymously? They have to share the code with customers, but that doesn’t mean GPL doesn’t apply to non-customers. Anyone working at these companies can download the source code and upload it online.