AlmaLinux answers to Red Hat about their change on RHEL updates

https://lwn.net/Articles/935918/

All started with some RHEL 8 updates that weren't published on CentOS Git...

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Anarch157a@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (2 replies)
Jagger2097@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Dosent this violate the gpl?

Anarch157a@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

As long as IBMRedHat publishes links to the upstream projects and send them patches for the modifications they distribute, no. But they don't have to publish the .spec files for RPM packages if those were created by them and are not part of the upstream, since those are not covered by the project's license.