On 2016-06-21 14:48:58 +0200 (+0200), Zane Bitter wrote: > That isn't my understanding, but it's hard to give a definitive > answer without knowing what kinds of non-free software you're > referring to (since I know there have been fierce disagreements > even e.g. within Debian on topics like firmware blobs). [...]
While I do tend to ascribe to the Debian and OpenBSD (and sometimes FSF) concepts of "free," I'm mostly referring to source redistribution issues I experienced in bygone years (my last direct experiences were back in the RHN/up2date days). Particularly things like, if I want to (re)build RPMs for RHEL where do I find the SRPMs used to create them and what license are they distributed under (at least back then you needed portal access/entitlements to even be able to download the source packages)? Poking around a bit, it looks they've since started maintaining specfiles in public source code repositories and with RHEL 7 they've made some commitment to keeping CentOS 7 SRPMs consistent (in line with the community merger) so you can download those directly even if you aren't a customer and want "RHEL equivalent" SRPMs. I think it's laudable that Red Hat has started to treat things like packaging metadata as part of their software and consider it freely redistributable now, though it makes me wonder if RHEL AS 7 and CentOS 7 are supposed to be fundamentally the same at this point (minus support contracts) then what is the point of making RHEL free for developer use (does it come with a free support contract)? And if the difference is that there's software/features available in RHEL that you can't get under CentOS, it sounds an awful lot like an "open core" scenario still. -- Jeremy Stanley __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
