Oracle, SUSE and CIQ form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), a community for enterprise Linux sources, following on from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) decision to make source code more difficult to access.

The association’s stated mission is to encourage the development of RHEL-compatible distributions by providing open and free Enterprise Linux source code, starting later this year with the sources necessary to build RHEL 8 and 9. Support for RHEL 7 is currently being listed as “possibly.”

[techcrunch.com...]