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2023-07-10 |
Oracle responds to Red Hat eliminating public access to RHEL source code |
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For several years Oracle has maintained a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux which, in its current form, is called Oracle Linux. When Red Hat eliminated public access to its source code in June many people saw it as a way for the company to cut off Oracle's ability to repackage, customize, and release their own clone of Red Hat's distribution. Oracle has since responded and, in an unusual move for the company, taken a stance of promoting openness and collaboration while offering to do their best to keep Oracle Linux binary compatible with Red Hat Entperise Linux: "As for Oracle, we will continue pursuing our goal for Linux as transparently and openly as we always have while minimizing fragmentation. We will continue to develop and test our software products on Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux will continue to be RHEL compatible to the extent we can make it so. In the past, Oracle's access to published RHEL source has been important for maintaining that compatibility. From a practical standpoint, we believe Oracle Linux will remain as compatible as it has always been through release 9.2, but after that, there may be a greater chance for a compatibility issue to arise. If an incompatibility does affect a customer or ISV, Oracle will work to remediate the problem." The company has also offered to help indepenent software vendors, who usually test their products on Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones, maintain their software on Oracle Linux. |
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