On 2/27/21 8:18 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 2/26/21 12:59 PM, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote: >> Feb 25th from Red Hat's Jason Brook: >> "... open source to gain access to RHEL subscriptions ... which now >> includes ... CentOS Stream to test applications and workloads against >> the next release of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform." >> >> Source: >> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/extending-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux-open-source-organizations >> >> >> That sounds like the OFFER is for a Linux distro project to use Red >> Hat subscription services as part of the support of the Linux distro >> project. > > The partial quote above is a total mis-parsing of that paragraph. The > paragraph plainly and clearly should be parsed as 'ROSI' is now a third > level of Red Hat's already existing support for open source projects; > that is, Fedora and CentOS Stream were previous OS choices upstream open > source projects could use at no cost, now ROSI is a third. > > I also read that this sort of arrangement has existed previously and > that ROSI is just a formalization of those arrangements (the sentence > "We frequently provide no-cost access to RHEL to these groups, but the > process isn’t as formalized, consistent, accessible or transparent as > we’d like it to be." says that). Fedora and CentOS have quite possibly > been using RHEL for some time now (I am not a member of either project's > infrastructure team, so I don't know what OS is being used in the > infrastructure). > > The point is clear to me, and I'll paraphrase: If you were using CentOS > for your infrastructure in an upstream open-source project, where the > license is a Fedora-approved license, you could be eligible for no-cost > RHEL to replace your CentOS. Yes, upstream is specifically mentioned > (sentence, and not a sentence fragment: "We want RHEL to be used broadly > in upstream open source development, both as a testing platform and as a > stable foundation for development. "). > > An RHEL rebuild is not "upstream open source development." Thanks Lamar .. could not have said it better myself :)