RHEL source code may now only be obtained via the Red Hat customer portal rather than pulled from Git.
This means that RHEL rebuilds (which _want_ to be downstream of RHEL) now have no way to obtain sources, since in order to use the customer portal you have to agree to not distribute the content downloaded from it to anyone else.
> The article refers to subscription paywalls; so I'm assuming they apply to this CentOS Stream thing, which indeeded makes it totally-not-a-community edition.
There's no paywall in front of CentOS Stream. Anyone can download it for free like any other Linux distro.
> Technically, it would way more sense for a bona fide community OS to be the upstream for the commercial one with the paywalls and subscriptions, than to be making community editions downstream. But it looks like CentOS Stream isn't it, so the point is moot.
CentOS Stream _is_ upstream of RHEL. It's far more of a community OS than CentOS ever was. Paywalls and subscriptions are for RHEL not CentOS Stream.
The problem is that the traditional CentOS community does not _want_ to be upstream of RHEL. But they also don't want to pay for it...
RHEL source code may now only be obtained via the Red Hat customer portal rather than pulled from Git.
This means that RHEL rebuilds (which _want_ to be downstream of RHEL) now have no way to obtain sources, since in order to use the customer portal you have to agree to not distribute the content downloaded from it to anyone else.
> The article refers to subscription paywalls; so I'm assuming they apply to this CentOS Stream thing, which indeeded makes it totally-not-a-community edition.
There's no paywall in front of CentOS Stream. Anyone can download it for free like any other Linux distro.
> Technically, it would way more sense for a bona fide community OS to be the upstream for the commercial one with the paywalls and subscriptions, than to be making community editions downstream. But it looks like CentOS Stream isn't it, so the point is moot.
CentOS Stream _is_ upstream of RHEL. It's far more of a community OS than CentOS ever was. Paywalls and subscriptions are for RHEL not CentOS Stream.
The problem is that the traditional CentOS community does not _want_ to be upstream of RHEL. But they also don't want to pay for it...