On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 17:07 -0400, JT wrote: > > Who says that developer account will be available soon, Have Red Hat made > > a commitment to keep > it? > > People want to update a system and not fart about, updating via ISO or > > installing a new > system every 6 months is a joke. > > You can download ISOs without a dev account. Someone could easily get the > SRPMS as they are > entitled to have and compile them and make a 3rd party repo that everyone > could add and update > from, so people wouldn't have to re-install. My point is that Red Hat is not > able to lock down > the code because of the GPL. There will always be a way around anything they > try to put in > place. > > People in the FLOSS world really care about this stuff and are also really > stubborn... if Red Hat > tries to do anything like this, there will be thousands of people that will > come together to work > around everything Red Hat attempts to put in place to block people. > > Don't worry, take a deep breath and relax, the code will remain open source > and it will remain > freely available. > > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 4:56 PM Philip Wyett <philip.wy...@kathenas.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 16:49 -0400, JT wrote: > > > > I believe the GPL asks you never have to make agreement to access GPL > > > > code. > > > > > > Correct. Per the GPL if you have the binary you have a legal right to > > > the code. > > > Also the GPL does contain clauses that stipulate that outside agreements > > > cannot excuse anyone > > > from the conditions of the license, see the No Surrender of Others' > > > Freedom section. > > > > > > Also keep in mind that you can download the RHEL ISOs for free without a > > > dev license from > > this > > > page: https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download You can't > > > update the packages, > > but > > > you can install that version of RHEL on your computer and use it. So > > > anyone grabbing that > > ISO > > > has legal right to the source code for the base system. > > > > > > > > > > Who says that developer account will be available soon, Have Red Hat made a > > commitment to keep > > it? > > > > People want to update a system and not fart about, updating via ISO or > > installing a new system > > every 6 months is a joke. > > > > Regards > > > > Phil > >
Hi, How are you downloading RHEL ISO images? Please do not tell me to take a deep breath and relax. Show some respect. Regards Phil -- *** Playing the game for the games own sake. *** Associations: * Debian Maintainer (DM) * Fedora/EPEL Maintainer. * Contributor member of the AlmaLinux foundation. WWW: https://kathenas.org Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg Twitter: @kathenasorg Instagram: @kathenasorg IRC: kathenas GPG: 724AA9B52F024C8B
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