Hi Josh,
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:44 AM Simon Matter simon.matter@invoca.ch wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 7:47 AM Peter Georg peter.georg@physik.uni-regensburg.de wrote:
On 22/06/2023 12.56, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 6:51 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel centos-devel@centos.org wrote:
Hi All,
I wonder if someone is in the role/position to shed some more
light
on
the topic as announced here https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
Any deadlines? Does this target only EL10 or also any current
release?
It is in effect now for RHEL 8 and 9 and will continue for any
future
RHEL releases. The development and source code for all of these releases will continue to happen through the CentOS Stream project.
RHEL 7 and CentOS Linux 7 are not affected.
Would be great if some discussion/communication could be happen.
Thanks!
If you have more questions, please ask and we can try to address
them.
I do indeed have a question. The Kmods SIG currently provides
artifacts
for both CentOS Stream and RHEL. To achieve that we have established some automation using GitLab CI to avoid human interaction as far as possible. For that to work we do need access to the following sources from RHEL (version numbers are just examples):
kernel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.src.rpm
or
linux-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.tar.xz (which is included in the
src.rpm).
So far we have downloaded the tarball from git.centos.org/sources
However, my understanding is that new versions of these files will
not
be provided anymore. In fact the example listed here (current RHEL 9 kernel) is already not provided anymore.
Your understanding is correct.
What I don't understand is this: as a Red Hat customer with paid subscription, I'm still able to download kernel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.src.rpm, right?
Yes.
If I do so and extract the kernel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.src.rpm archive, can I put the resulting files on a public server and let others download the files?
The kernel is licensed under the GPL, which grants redistribution rights to all such licensed source code.
josh
Thanks for your answer. I'm still wondering about two things:
1) This comment https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/ says:
The key point being is that to obtain those binaries, customers - as well as developers on free accounts – must agree to a license agreement and are under the terms of a contract, which overrides the GPL license of the code itself.
Is this true? Can anyone set up new rules and just "override" the GPL license?
2) RHEL contains more than "the GPL", fact is it contains source code licensed under a large amount of different licenses. Is it really possible to cover and override all of them so easily?
I'd really like to understand what the new announcement of Red Hat means exactly.
Regards, Simon