CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have announced their intent to form a collaborative trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers.
The Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) will “encourage the development of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by providing open and free Enterprise Linux (EL) source code.” According to the announcement, “OpenELA will provide sources necessary for downstreams compatible with RHEL to exist, with initial focus on RHEL versions EL8, EL9 and possibly EL7.”
“Collaboration is critical to fostering innovation, which is why we welcome everyone to be part of this association and help us uphold open community standards,” said Thomas Di Giacomo, chief technology and product officer of SUSE.
This development is clearly a response to Red Hat’s recent changes to their source code policy, which, as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols points out in his analysis, have “made it much more difficult for RHEL clone vendors, such as AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and Oracle Linux, to create perfect RHEL variant distributions."
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