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mackca

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    Comment #36551612

    According to Red Hat it is. If you don't believe them you can get a Developer subscription to get a RHEL ISO to compare with a CentOS Stream ISO. I imagine a lot of people, myself …

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    Comment #36549541

    RHEL source according to Red Hat is CentOS Stream. If the source of RHEL is CentOS Stream then how is it irrelevant? Red Hat cannot deprive you of your right to sources and to redi…

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    Comment #36549402

    RHEL source according to Red Hat is CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream is publicly available. Red Hat cannot deprive you of your right to sources and to redistribute them under the GPL. …

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    Comment #36545773

    According to Red Hat the source of RHEL is publicly available on CentOS Stream Gitlab, without a EULA.

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    Comment #36545535

    Isn't that the whole issue here? Customers and people with Developer licenses can get the exact RHEL binaries "behind the paywall". And even then if something is upstream does that…

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    Comment #36541095

    That repo would undercut the entire purpose of Rocky, which in their wiki state > Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible …

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    Comment #36536679

    > playing whack-a-mole with rebuilders Are they playing whack-a-mole? Or was this one change that people are arguing (and Red Hat's lawyers seem to think) is within their rights un…

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    Comment #36536286

    I am amazed that multiple OSS lawyers gave you the same answer and you still don't believe them. > (what Fortune 500 company would like to have their Red Hat servers all go dead be…

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    Comment #36536173

    downstreaming ? How is the open source social contract anymore than making source code available?

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    Comment #36536050

    So Red Hat is saying that CentOS Stream is how RHEL is built, you are saying it is not. Can you show the difference in packages from CentOS Stream and RHEL? Rocky says they pull pa…

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    Comment #36535095

    But according to Red Hat in the interview linked below all of RHEL is built from CentOS Stream, is having the source code available in CentOS Stream Gitlab not adhering to GPL ?

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    Comment #36529994

    Because it is extra effort on Red Hat's part that corporate backed projects can compensate for if they choose to ?

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    Comment #36529956

    All I heard in that segment was Red Hat stopped taking extra steps to debrand and push packages from RHEL, and now clones will have to build their software from CentOS Stream. I di…

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    Comment #36528722

    Here's a thought, maybe Red Hat was being honest when they said that they were not under an obligation to make it easy for rebuilders, and that's it? Maybe they weren't out to imme…