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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by dralley on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:38PM (#25352450)
That is not how the GPL works. The GPL only entitles you to the source code of software for which you have been provided binaries. If the software has not been provided to you in binary form, you have no claim to the source.

This is why the cloud providers can get away with custom in-house patches to the Linux kernel.

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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by toyg on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:06AM (#25356414)
Yep, this is actually one of those things Stallman has been saying for decades and people like to ignore: the GPL doesn’t mean all code must be in the public domain, only that users of a given program should be able to modify it. There are a number of ways to allow for that while still keeping distribution restricted.
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