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@tlenewspodcast I still don't understand how Red Hat's move is legal. GPL allows you to redistribute the code with modifications, and even resell it. Sure, you may put the code behind a paywall, but users may still bring the content out of the paywall, is that not the case?

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Apparently, the loophole would be that you could decide to ignore their terms and conditions, and redistribute the code. You'd be booted as a client, but you'd still get the code and can share it this way.

You could also argue that the code is still available, in the CentOS Stream repos, although it's not a snapshot of RHEL code, the code used to build an exact version of RHEL is mixed in with other patches that only CentOS Stream gets.