Технологический Болт Генона

Технологический Болт Генона

Тут Jeff Geerling разродился серией постов в адрес Red Hat. Тот кто активно пользуется Ansible, тот точно натыкался или пользовался его репозиториями. У него 100500 ролей на любой вкус https://github.com/geerlingguy?tab=repositories https://galaxy.ansib…

Вчера в комментах поста про Red Hat обсуждали лицензии и Джефф выкатил пост как раз на эту тему

The corporate license experts I talked to said the threat of termination of a subscription would not trigger the 'no restrictions' clause of the GPLv2, which deals with a copyright, not a contract.

I... disagree in principle (for what that's worth, lol) and think a lot about "interference, coercion, or intimidation", something surrounded by some legal precedent, admittedly not in the software space, and only really dealing with discriminatory topics like real estate sales. But it seems there is some case law (ironically, dealing with SCO and IBM) on the topic.

As for whether Red Hat would enforce that agreement and cancel someone's subscription for sharing the source code, here's what Mike McGrath had to say (at approximately 50:30):

> If they [downstreams] continue to use their subscription, I think that they would find they'd have difficulties with that, but, I don't really know what else to say about it.

I think it's insane Red Hat, of all companies, is the one triggering this thought process.

GPLv2, Red Hat, and You
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/gplv2-red-hat-and-you

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Вчера в комментах поста про Red Hat обсуждали лицензии и Джефф выкатил пост как раз на эту тему

The corporate license experts I talked to said the threat of termination of a subscription would not trigger the 'no restrictions' clause of the GPLv2, which deals with a copyright, not a contract.

I... disagree in principle (for what that's worth, lol) and think a lot about "interference, coercion, or intimidation", something surrounded by some legal precedent, admittedly not in the software space, and only really dealing with discriminatory topics like real estate sales. But it seems there is some case law (ironically, dealing with SCO and IBM) on the topic.

As for whether Red Hat would enforce that agreement and cancel someone's subscription for sharing the source code, here's what Mike McGrath had to say (at approximately 50:30):

> If they [downstreams] continue to use their subscription, I think that they would find they'd have difficulties with that, but, I don't really know what else to say about it.

I think it's insane Red Hat, of all companies, is the one triggering this thought process.

BY Технологический Болт Генона