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Comment Overplayed and Overreacted (Score 1) 118

With all the amount of whining around this issue, it seems to be really overplayed.

RedHat has not limited access to source RPMs or SPEC files. They are still going to be available in Centos git repos, with a revision history for each package.

What is going away is two things:
a) access to source RPMs for a particular RHEL release or update level (I believe it has been already gone since RHEL 9)
b) the list of package versions that a particular RHEL update or RHEL release includes.

That is, all source revisions are still available in git repositories per package. One just needs to know the distro configuration to build a full clone.

Obviously, this is a move against cloners (and there are many small local or bigger companies that tried to make money repackaging RHEL and selling alternative contracts), but I do not think RHEL is violating any license here.

In fact, until now they have been the only company that provided easily rebuildable source packages that actually build without manual tweaking or having custom compile roots that only vendors have. And they are the only vendor that has a history of each package in the git tree.

I do not have a problem with what RedHat did.

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