Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

Posted Jun 21, 2023 17:01 UTC (Wed) by jccleaver (guest, #127418)
In reply to: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by NYKevin
Parent article: Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

>Of course, Red Hat's customers *could* then turn around and release the RHEL source publicly. I guess they're just not terribly interested in doing that.

That in and of itself wouldn't be an issue. However, all signs point to RedHat terminating the license of someone redistributing its bits. Using those SRPMS to run a rebuild and then distribute the packages *you* create would be the next step, but something tells me RH plans to make binary or self-hosting rebuilds as painful as absolutely possible going forward. Kind of like what they did for their kernel patches in the SRPM once Oracle started doing its OEL thing.