They really can't do that for most packages, not without violating the license of the various projects. Remember, you can modify software to your heart's content, but as soon as you redistribute it, you have to include the source code for those changes. There's far too much contributed software for them to be able to switch to closed source.
As to who could take them to court over this, there are multiple entities, such as the Free Software Foundation, as well as the Software Freedom Conservancy, who have the resources to prevail in court, not to mention the immediate revolt within their own ranks, for trying to go Closed Source. There's just no way this scenario would succeed. On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:44 AM Mark J. Bailey <m...@jobsoft.com> wrote: > > In theory (litigated, or not), yes. But, should IBM cut off access to the > SRPMS, whose got the money to take them to court over it? Very few other > commercial entities out there depend on Red Hat’s SRPMS, so there’d likely be > little incentive to lay down the consider costs to go after them. Without > those SRPMS, maintaining a free Rocky or Alma (or even having a CentOS in the > first place) would be next to impossible, at least in the sense of mirroring > RHEL. Funny how this aspect is often glazed over. Red Hat could also share > source in a way that makes it much more painful to even bother with it. > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows > > > > From: Kent Perrier > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 8:54 AM > To: nlug-talk > Subject: Re: [nlug] CentOS replacement?OpenSUSE? Ubu20? > > > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 6:43 AM Mark J. Bailey <m...@jobsoft.com> wrote: >> >> And, of course, I can’t help but wonder if it will it eventually get >> “CentOS’d(ead)” by IBM as well. > > > What influence does IBM have over Rocky Linux to kill it? All of the RHEL > code is GPL, Rocky (and Alma) will always have access to it. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC96vxbwd_TgNHctyuFfvTyTSBUcG0AL2Yem%3D5guZKtYxw%40mail.gmail.com. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/32768296.117329.1634661845701.JavaMail.zimbra%40mail.jobsoft.net. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcVfuFQWiMqF0iLGETjxgxnJ7BaN9iHDvuSpbcZN9%3DUAgg%40mail.gmail.com.
