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by davisr 1083 days ago
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...
1 comments

It's malicious compliance. They might as well say that since their code is somewhere in Pi, it's all open source.