OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source.
From The Register
CIQ, Oracle, and Suse huh? One of these things is not like the other.
It’s a testament to how badly Red Hat fucked up that Oracle, of all companies, is getting good press out of this.
Good for them. The shit that red hat is doing as far as registration and licensing is a nightmare.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The OpenELA team this week trumpeted public release of the Enterprise Linux source code and formation of a technical steering committee.
A trade association headed by CIQ, SUSE, and Oracle, the group intends to encourage the development of distributions compatible with RHEL by providing open and free Enterprise Linux (EL) source code.
The source code to allow anyone to build a derivative Enterprise Linux operating system is now available from the group’s repositories – so long as it is EL 8 and 9 you’re after; packages for EL7 are on the way, although OpenELA did not give a timescale.
The move created headaches for distributions that had sprung up in the wake of the CentOS termination, such as Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, and had the frankly surreal effect of making Oracle – famed for its handling of Java – appear as … the good guys?
Wim Coekaerts, head of Oracle Linux development, looked forward to further adoption of collaboration around OpenELA and said: “With today’s announcement of the availability of the source code for packages, the completed incorporation, and the formation of the technical steering committee, we are delivering on our promises and our commitment to helping and maintaining the ability for anyone to develop compatible EL distributions.”
Benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, commented: "I’m always excited to see a new non-profit organization get its feet under it and start to get going.
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AlmaLinux is yet to join, it seems. Interesting…
The title “Makes EL source available” made me very frustrated for a second lol
This is good news, I am glad they have officially released FOSS code for EL and not, which I thought I read, them moving from a FOSS license to a source available license.
