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HuskyOffset

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6. If my understanding is correct
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 11:19 PM
Jul 2023

Redhat is required by the GPL to make the source code of anything under the GPL available to anyone they distribute binaries to. They cannot prevent those people from further distributing the source code, but if they do, Redhat will decline to continue doing business with them, which means they're cut off from any future source code and binaries. Redhat is primarily in the business of selling support, but they only supply the binaries of their distribution to their paying customers, so those are the only people they are required to provide the source code to.

It's underhanded as shit, and I'm glad my linux journey went Ubuntu->Kubuntu->Manjaro->OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, with no RHEL based distro.

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