On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:59 PM Mark Rousell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/05/2019 08:19, Tom H wrote: >> >> Red hat can limit access to its source RPMs to its paying customers >> and prevent free rebuilds > > Although Red Hat have an extensive end user licence agreement, it is > generally accepted that no terms in such an EULA can extinguish the > software licence terms under which copyright holders have chosen to > distribute heir software. In this case that is the GPL and both Red > Hat and myself are bound by it.
If you violate the RH EULA, it can and will prevent you from accessing RPMs and SRPMs to upgrade your installation. But, as i said earlier, I doubt that RH'll go down that route because it gains from having a free version. I suspect that it's more likely that IBM decides that it's wasteful to have a team re-brand RHEL and rebuild it, and chooses to follow the Ubuntu model whereby RHEL would be free, with support licenses available.
