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I think we all knew this was coming when IBM acquired RedHat. Does anyone know if the licensing is permissive enough to enable Centos spin-offs? If that's poss
by bitcharmer 6y ago
I think we all knew this was coming when IBM acquired RedHat.
Does anyone know if the licensing is permissive enough to enable Centos spin-offs? If that's possible there's a decent chance some company will jump on it and fill the void.
- znpy 6y agoOne could pull the same trick that CentOS pulled: check-out all the sources, replace all the logos and trademarks and rebuild. I honestly hope this is what's going to happen.
- speeder 6y agoTheoretically, CentOS was the RHEL source release. Now that this changed, I wonder, do RHEL sources are still available 100% identical to their binary? Or the announcement yesterday just broke GPL2 compliance?
- macksd 6y agoThe original CentOS founder already announced his intention to do exactly that. I believe it's going to land here: https://github.com/hpcng/rocky https://github.com/hpcng/rocky. The thread about the CentOS Stream announcement yesterday had references to other efforts too.
- znpy 6y agoThat man is a treasure.
- swinglock 6y agohttps://lwn.net/Articles/786422/ https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/ That didn't age well. Maybe we'll see a Scientific Linux comeback.
- bayindirh 6y agoI'm not sure that CERN would like to work on it full steam but, it'd be great though.
- darkr 6y agoCentOS is/was based upon RHEL. In the same family of RHEL clone distros there is at least: * Oracle (yuk) * Scientific Linux (though I don't think they attempt to guarantee binary compatibility as CentOS does/did)
- bhouston 6y agoScientific Linux was discontinued early last year.