The two ways they have for getting source code are kind of funny and easy, and kind of makes fun of RHEL in pulling this maneuver, getting so much community backlash and ultimately having so little effect other than to negatively impact future business. But will they go further to violate the GPL? Or concede defeat? Say what you want, but to cut off paying customers if they share source code which is their right under the GPL is a really bad move that exposes the character of those running the company.
The whole uproar is from them saying they will cancel accounts of users redistributing the code. Not them putting it behind a paywall.
Which is a perfectly valid reason to be upset, should that be the case. I was looking for sources on that, as I haven’t seen any. It looks like others may have linked them, so I’ll go have a look.
EDIT to clarify my meaning, and also to add: I am familiar with the GPL. And yeah, looks like that’s the case. Which really, really sucks lol. Someone quoted/linked their license and reading over it is uh… Pretty unambiguous about their intent. Sad days.
This document talks briefly about unauthorized redistribution of RHEL sources: https://www.redhat.com/licenses/Appendix_1_Global_English_20230309.pdf
Page for all agreements with Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/agreements
These documents appear to be written in Microsoft Word, not that this is of any consequence.