OpenELA Drops First RHEL, 'Enterprise Linux' Compatible Source Code

Long-time Slashdot reader williamyf writes: In the ongoing battle between Red Hat and other 'Enterprise Linux -- RHEL compatible' distros, today the OpenELA (Open Enterprise Linux Association), a body Consisting of CIQ (stewards of Rocky Linux), Oracle and Suse, released source code for a generic 'Enterprise Linux Distro' (Sources available for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9). A Steering committee for the foundation was also formed.

War between Red Hat and what they call 'clones' (mostly Oracle; CentOS, Rocky, Alma and others seem to be collateral damage) has been raging on for years. First, in 2011, Red Hat changed the way they distributed kernel patches. Then, in 2014, Red Hat absorbed CentOS. In 2019 Red Hat transformed CentOS to CentOS stream, and shortened support Timetables for CentOS 8, all out of the blue. Then, in 2023, RedHat severely restricted source code access to non-customers.

What will be RedHat's reaction to this development? My bet is that they will stop to release source code of distro modules under BSD, MIT, APACHE and MPL Licenses for RHEL and in certain Windows for CentOS Stream. What is your bet? Let us know in the comments.

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