[CentOS-devel] [EXT] Re: Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

Fri Jun 23 15:34:01 UTC 2023
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:44 AM Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 7:47 AM Peter Georg
> > <peter.georg at 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 at 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