The software company Red Hat has decided to no longer offer the source code of RHEL as open source.

The American software company Red Hat obtains the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the open source offer.

What happened

According to Red Hat, this is the next step in the evolution of the CentOS Stream project, which launched just two years ago as a focus for RHEL collaborations. This made operating system development more transparent and open.

Now Red Hat wants to use its CentOS Stream even more for the further development of RHEL, but no longer as a collaboration tool. This means that codes from the Linux system are stored exclusively on CentOS Stream and are no longer publicly available as open source.

Why

Before CentOS Stream, Red Hat published the RHEL code on the CentOS Git server. When the CentOS project focused on Stream, this store stayed active.

However, CentOS Linux was no longer developed downstream from RHEL, and Red Hat now considers that memory obsolete.

Paid customers and partners can continue to access the RHEL code via CentOS Stream and are subject to the terms of their Red Hat subscription.

At the end of January, Red Hat announced further collaboration with Oracle around RHEL. Additionally, last month the company released a catalog of tens of thousands of packages running on RHEL as part of new security systems.