Comment by shartstorm92
2 years ago
The GPL doesn't allow you to charge for access to the source code. Redhat will remove your right to future updates of the code if you exercise your GPL rights and share the source code from a release. The code you share will still be GPL'd, but you get kicked out of the club. Inb4 that is functionally the same as charging for code. No, it is holding future code hostage based on not exercising your rights. This goes against the spirit of the GPL, and we should fork it and just do something else after getting kicked out of corporate propaganda network, aka Redhat. Corporatists, all of em. They aren't doing GPL really. They will end up pulling out of the GPL in a future release anyway. Might as well cut our losses. Too much hand wringing about it, just say the truth about them.
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