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by tourmalinetaco 1083 days ago
While it’s important to get both sides, RH’s actions are the exact opposite of what he’s saying there. And your belief that this somehow absolves them and that their anti-FLOSS actions are “misinformation” is incredibly disingenuous.
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What actions? What anti-FLOSS? They are complying fully with the terms of all licenses of RHEL and CentOS Software. Don't believe me? Here is what Fedora says about it [1]. It's no problem for them. "There is no change in Fedora or with anything related to Fedora."

  > 3) So what happened?
  > 
  > - CentOS Engineers will not be producing that git 
  > repo of exploded SRPMs anymore because there is 
  > no need for them in CentOS project.
  > 
  > - Red Hat recommends to take RHEL sources from 
  > CentOS Stream repositories because that is the 
  > actual source from which RHEL packages are built 
  > by RHEL Engineers.
  > 
  > Can you still get access to SRPMs and create 
  > exploded sources repo - Yes. But there is no 
  > practical reason for Red Hat or for CentOS 
  > Project to maintain such a service.
  > 
  > There is no change in Fedora or with anything 
  > related to Fedora.
  > 
  > -- 
  > Aleksandra Fedorova,
  > member of Fedora Council
  > RHEL/CentOS Strem CI Engineer
[1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
It's malicious compliance. They might as well say that since their code is somewhere in Pi, it's all open source.