Really???
Red hat since it’s inception has been an open source company. This has given them the bragging rights of claiming as such. Now however you have products, in this case jewel (there are many others in red hat’s catalog) that you have slapped an Open Source licence on where you don’t even meet the first fundamental principle of Open Source software…
Free To Use
This imposition is not that the software is free, as in cost no money; it’s free as in you can use it.
The majority of the Open Source software community are users – Users whom are only technical enough to follow documentation to get the software working so they can use it. If you have an “Open Source” piece of software that the majority of the community is unable to use, You don’t have “Open Source” software you have code has an Open Source licence. As such, you have now lost your “bragging rights”.
Additionally Red Hat is quite happy to use members of the Open Source Community, in this case developers to their advantage. All of this whilst neglecting the user base, the largest membership group in the community.
Where ever you fall within the Open Source community, in essence it’s a social contract between all who choose to partake, do your part: be it owner, developer, contributor (other) and last and not least end user.
Shame on Red Hat
Now I’ll address your response
ok, non committal. Although the remainder of your post adds a “but” which cancels this statement out.
So in essence you want all of the benefits of owning “Open Source” software, where you use and abuse the developers from the community. All whilst not providing back to the same community “you claim” to be part of. Oh and yes you have claimed it, by using an Open Source licence.
Until such time that red hat (yes lower case, cause I’m “that” petty) chooses to fulfil their part of the Open Source social contract. As a developer within said Open Source community, I will not be assisting one bit. I work for the Open Source community only and without the end user, what’s the point.
PS. All repositories are for development. No one cares if it is up or down stream.
/cc @geerlingguy, fyi and for anyone else who is sick of large companies doing what this post describes!!