If you weren’t already aware, the Linux community is currently up in a kerfluffle about Red Hat’s latest licensing changes. To summarize: Red Hat makes an operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and until a week or two ago, also published the source code publicly in the spirit of free and open source software. Red Hat makes money by selling RHEL subscriptions and support. Throughout the years, other organizations have republished RHEL for free (CentOS, Oracle Linux, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.