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by elteto 1090 days ago
If you are a paying customer you can get the SRPMs, so nothing has/will change for you.

This will definitely be one of their possible next steps, as they seem bent on locking down RHEL.

I see people frequently disparage the GPL here in HN and promote less encumbered alternatives. Well, _this_ is why the GPL is important, and it will become even more relevant in the future.

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The parent poster was suggesting that RedHat stops releasing the non GPL source code: "Red Hat currently releases all sources as if they were GPL sources, but that may stop in the future."

This would mean no more SRPMs.