Chaos Lever Podcast

Microaggressive Licensing [CL66]

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Microaggressive Licensing

Episode: 66

Published: 7/11/2023

Red Hat Open Source Ex-Pat Causes Big Spat
  • Several prominent open-source people like Jeff Geerling have roundly denounced Red Hat���s latest licensing strategy
  • The kernel was developed and is still maintained by Linus Torvalds
  • GPLv2 license, which requires that derivative products made available to the public must also make their source code freely available on request
  • JBoss, CoreOS, Gluster, and StackRox all have their source code freely available
  • IBM spent $34B to acquire Red Hat
  • Seriously, from 2012 to 2022, IBM had four, FOUR quarters of growth
  • Revenue decreased every year from 2011 to 2020
  • Red Hat conducted layoffs of about 4% of their workforce
  • Community Enterprise Operating System Linux, commonly known as CentOS was a distribution of Linux based on the upstream of RHEL
  • June of 2023 they made the decision to remove the public GitLab repos hosting the RHEL source code
  • Mark McGrath, published a follow up blog post attempting to justify the change

    • Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

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