On 3/1/21 12:41 PM, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote:
On Monday, March 1, 2021 8:50 AM, Rich Bowen rbowen@redhat.com wrote:
On 2/26/21 12:09 PM, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote:
FOSS organizations can use RHEL to create a Linux distro project but only if a Red Hat employee is on the goverance board of the project?
You have misunderstood.
If Alma or Rocky or YourPersonalRebuildProject wishes to use this offering, that's one of the covered use cases. If your reading of the various articles implies differently, then I'm sure we can work to clarify that.
Your later quote:
Feb 3rd from Red Hat's Bex: "... if that project has the goal of producing a Linux distribution ... don't use Red Hat Subscription Services to create or support your project."
... does not contradict this, as it refers to obtaining SOURCE from subscription services. That has not changed with this new offering.
Thank you for clarifing that.
So what the Feb 3rd blog post was really trying to say is don't use RHEL source RPMs without the debranding?
I do not presume to speak for Red Hat. And I am not in possession of a RHEL subscription. However, what I understand it to mean is that if you're going to do a RHEL rebuild project, use git.centos.org not source you got from your RHEL subscription.
If you are one of the tiny number of people that are 1) doing a RHEL rebuild and 2) are also a RHEL customer (I would speculate that this group of people can be counted on one hand) I would encourage you to speak to your Red Hat representative about this situation, rather than consulting this list. But that is what I understood from the blog post.