On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:58:47AM -0400, Eddie O'Connor wrote: > One question: If Red hat has been "purchased" by IBM....what happens to the > GPL license?..after all IBM is a "proprietary" company. What will happen to > the licensing of CEntOS?....Fedora?...truly troubling times. I might have > to go down the Yellow Brick Road and take up Debian as my regular OS. 😢
From the press release: "With this acquisition, IBM will remain committed to Red Hat’s open governance, open source contributions, participation in the open source community and development model, and fostering its widespread developer ecosystem. In addition, IBM and Red Hat will remain committed to the continued freedom of open source, via such efforts as Patent Promise, GPL Cooperation Commitment, the Open Invention Network and the LOT Network." https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-worlds-1-hybrid-cloud-provider Remember also: "The top 10 organizations sponsoring Linux kernel development since the last report are Intel, Red Hat, Linaro, IBM, Samsung, SUSE, Google, AMD, Renesas, and Mellanox." https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2017/10/2017-linux-kernel-report-highlights-developers-roles-accelerating-pace-change/ Looking at the numbers, together Red Hat + IBM would be number one, beating out Intel. We can't predict the future, but IBM has definitely contributed significantly to Linux and to other software under the GPL in the past — and the press release does give a strong commitment as well. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
