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Comment by musicale | Hacker News Reader

Breaking rpm in cloud and container instances seems like a losing strategy.

Yeah, instead of just upsetting the downstream 'rebuilders', you start upsetting enterprise customers too.

The use of UBI to gather sources is maddening to me. It actively inhibits opportunities we have to get the UBI package set expanded, something I'm working on for my industry. Their use of UBI for this purpose is getting in the way of enabling officially provided and unencumbered containerized RHEL for public consumption.

It sucks this hampers your goal of getting the UBI package set expanded but that's not because of the rebuilders using it as a loophole, it's because of the course IBM/RedHat set.

They decided their new course was 'compatible enough' with the GPL and this is one of those area where you start to feel the pain that's the difference between 'compatible enough' and actually compatible with the GPL and the ideas behind it.

The entire situation smells like an iterated prisoner's dilemma that's going to end up locked in an eternal defect/defect cycle with assorted odd and unintended collateral damage on the margins.

Hopefully in your case - given what was being said about the options - the rebuilders will end up settling on the public cloud instance approach. If that happens, with a bit of luck you can go back to your UBI related advocacy once the rubble stops bouncing.

Hopefully.

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