https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis...
tl;dr: They no longer publish source packages except to paying customers. If the paying customers republish the source, then RedHat closes the account.
I'm surprised none of the upstream developers have sued them for violating the license. There's no way I'd trust an organization that was behaving so unethically with control over my machine's package manager.
Anyway, I've been pretty happy with Devuan (Debian without SystemD). I find it much more stable than Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, etc., and all the userspace stuff I care about works great.
>If the paying customers republish the source, then RedHat closes the account.
Even if you ignore the above and think only about the official sources provided direct from the customer portal, it's still not a violation IMO.
Because that's not a restriction on how you can use the software you've been provided, it's a restriction on which services you can expect Red Hat to continue providing you, i.e. providing new software in the form of updates. The software you have already been provided continues functioning, it's not like the system gets bricked if your account is closed. GPL only specifies "what are you allowed you do with this piece of software you have been provided with", it doesn't guarantee a future relationship between the provider and receiver.
At worst it's a murky area, not a "systematic violation" as you claimed.
Also, like, it's a hypothetical thing the user agreement claims could be done, not something that necessarily is done. I don't think there has ever been an actual demonstrated instance of an account being closed because of that.
IIRC thats incorrect, RHEL gets some fixes before CentOS Stream.
Sounds like that implies that they probably actually aren't.
Vanguard has an odd corporate structure where it’s owned by the funds that it manages, so it’s effectively a co-op owned by its customers.
Think of these huge funds as proxies. It's like someone with little finance trading saying most of the internet is owned by cloudflare or RIPE or ARIN.
You are much better off sticking with Debian anyway, or looking at Guix for a significant improvement.
Vanguard and other large institutions own a huge chunk of everything because most investors don't buy stocks directly, they buy them through mutual funds, ETFs, etc...
