• @d3Xt3r@lemmy.ml
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    51 year ago

    I haven’t seen this in person so I can only speculate, but I bet they’ll only provide the sources as a tarball or something instead of a git repo, which will make it a PITA for anyone do actually do anything useful with it. I mean, you could potentially still build a full distro from it, but you wouldn’t be able to feasibly maintain it without the ability to do a sync and merge from upstream. So this way, Red Hat achieves their goal of being able to kill any spinoff distro, whilst still remaining compliant with the GPL.

    • The_Pete
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      51 year ago

      Additionally, they have to release sources for the projects but not necessarily for things like the spec files or the rpms.

      Here’s the source for the kernel . . . .

      Thanks I can get that from kernel.org

      It’s the part that’s not GPL that’s the value add here.