Software Conservancy News Today

I recently wrote about how the Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat. But Red Hat’s recent move to only provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code to customers suggests that the “Red Hat model” no longer works for Red Hat. Removing the public code base for CentOS and only offering the RHEL source code to customers may be technically legal but it lacks transparency and is a sideways attempt to restrict the redistribution of open source code.

Trump’s new TRUTH social network violates the software license it’s built on and must get in compliance, the holder of the license demanded this week.

The controversy surrounding Richard Stallman has raised questions about the Free Software Foundations relevance. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has been known for years as the founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) -- in fact, of the free software community itself. Ironically, with his recent reappointment to the FSF’s board of directors, he also risks becoming known as the man who threw the FSF into disarray, losing it the authority it has gained over the decades. The story dates back to S...