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Recent updates to *software licensing* have caused concern in the cloud community, especially changes affecting Red Hat. The video reviews these headlines, sharing thoughts on the impact of these *cloud software* modifications. Understanding *open source software* and *licensing agreements* is crucial for navigating the evolving **technology industry**.

The Growing trend of Open Source vendors changing their licensing schemes.

Taken from Cloud State Of Play - April 2024 episode:
   • Cloud State Of Play - April 2024  

There's been a movement recently whereby open source vendors are changing their licensing schemes from the more traditional Open Source Software (OSS) licenses to more 'business-like' ones.

Red Hat started this trend, I suppose, a few years ago when they effectively stopped support for CentOS by discontinuing it (as a downstream, recompilation of RHEL), in favour of CentOS Stream (an upstream distro which previewed what's to come in RHEL, later). This caused a host of forks from those who still had legitimate access to the RHEL source code. Notable distros include Rocky Linux (by the author of CentOS), Alma Linux (CloudLinux Inc) and OpenELA (Enterprise Linux Association - Oracle, SUSE and CIQ - CIQ or CtrlIQ, being the sponsors of Rocky Linux).

@JeffGeerling reflects the same concerns and calls it a "betrayal":
   • Huge Open Source Drama  
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...

HashiCorp Terraform got the same treatment recently:
Changed from Mozilla Public License (MPL) to Business Source License (BSL)
Caused a fork with OpenTofu - September 2023 - now officially adopted by The Linux Foundation
https://zeet.co/blog/the-impact-of-ha....

Others include Redis, MongoDB, Elastic and Sentry.

Saim @cloudnativefm mentions LinkerD's changes - documented here:
  / no_more_open_source_stable_releases_of_lin...  
https://thenewstack.io/some-linkerd-u...
https://buoyant.io/blog/clarification...

New license model = Functional Source License (FSL) = evolution of BSL (BUSL)
"Deepens the commitment to balancing user freedom and developer sustainability. It's seen as a compelling option for Open Source-minded SaaS companies who wish to grant freedom without harmful free-riding."

=== From Cloud State Of Play Aug 2023

Red Hat open source strategy

You may have heard recently that Red Hat decided to change its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) license, which effectively means that it will no longer share its source code for RHEL, downstream.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/2...

The Register headline states:
"Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams. From now on, only CentOS Stream's source code is available to all".

From now on it will only be available to customers — who can't legally share it.

Announced in a "superficially modest blog post" - The Register, June 2023. 'El Reg' goes on to say that the announcement was "so full of corporate language that it borders on obfuscation"...!
This was confirmed by Red Hat but The Register had to read between the lines!

Bad news for downstream projects: AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, EuroLinux and Oracle Unbreakable Linux. CentOS Stream is fine cos it comes before the RHEL releases.

This is a huge impact on downstream distros and not really cricket and seems to go against the 'spirit' of the open source community.

Oracle and CIQ (Rocky Linux sponsors) have created OpenELA = Open Enterprise Linux Association:
https://www.oracle.com/news/announcem...

The opinion piece in The Register is quite damning:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/1...

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Thanks again to my special guest, Saim Safdar, for his insights. All opinions expressed in this video are solely of the person who gave them and do not reflect opinions/stance/policy of any other person(s)/employer(s)/organisations/entities/vendors, etc. All copyrights are of their respective owners and are used here (in various formats) purely for reference purposes and under fair use policy.

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Intro + Outro Track:: Deadfro5h by Starfrosch (Unminus).

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