[-] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I used to use that approach, but found in the last several years more than half the web sites I use reject email addresses with “+” characters.

I even use several sites that used to take those addresses just fine now reject them. That made me wonder if some common JS package for parsing email addresses got changed.

[-] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Again, less than half of RHEL is even software released under the GPL.

I would be completely shocked if this were true. I'm calling BS here.

I used to be my company's primary contact for our Red Hat TAM for almost 13 years. Our TAMs were very proud to claim that all of RHEL was FOSS software, licensed under the GPL or sometimes other FOSS licenses.

I spun up a RHEL 9.2 instance and ran:

$ sudo dnf list --all | wc -l
6671
$ dnf info --all | grep "^License .*:.*GPL.*" | wc -l
4344
$ python -c "print(4344/6673 * 100)"
65.11767351221705

So 65% of RHEL 9's packages are under a GPL license.

Much of the software that is GPL was authored by Red Hat themselves. According to the text of the GPL itself, Red Hat is not required to distribute the code to the totality of the RHEL distribution or even to more than half the code.

Half?!? Again, where are these mysterious numbers coming from?

It doesn't matter if Red Hat authored those packages or not. What matters is if they were distributed under a GPL license. If you're claiming that Red Hat multi-licensed those GPL'd packages that they exclusively wrote so they don't have to comply with the GPL, please point those out to me (or at least a few), so I can check them out.

[-] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Use Tailscale. Much easier to configure and manage than raw WireGuard.

[-] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

All of them. Corp directive (now) is that hosts must be updated or reimaged every 90 days.

[-] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The GPL only cares about ensuring the four freedoms are maintained for binaries and their related sources.

No, the GPL goes beyond that. It not only ensures those four freedoms, but also ensures the freedom to exercise them without restriction. That's what the language in section 6 is meant to protect. If RH only limited potential access to future releases of binaries, I see that as fine and not a restriction. But RH is going well beyond that by terminating existing contracts; accounts; technical, web, and support access; and not refunding monies paid in advance for those services. (Theoretically, since they haven't done it to anyone yet that I'm aware of.) If legally those actions are not deemed a "restriction", then I'd agree with you.

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