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Red Hat grew on GPL licensed projects to become a $34 billion business. Canonical does the same except it’s Ubuntu not RHEL and charges more than Red Hat. You
by kccqzy 2mo ago
Red Hat grew on GPL licensed projects to become a $34 billion business. Canonical does the same except it’s Ubuntu not RHEL and charges more than Red Hat.
You really underestimate the value of support contracts.
- pessimizer 2mo agoGPL is not MIT. If your software is GPL, you can sell it relicensed as MIT for income.
- kccqzy 2mo agoDoesn’t matter. When companies pay for support contracts they don’t care whether the code is GPL or MIT. They care about the support they get.
- jen20 2mo agoYou can only do this if you own the copyright for all contributions.
- lmz 2mo agoRed Hat is not relicensing the Linux kernel, or GCC (to name two examples).