On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 16:49 -0400, JT wrote:
I believe the GPL asks you never have to make agreement to access GPL code.
Correct. Per the GPL if you have the binary you have a legal right to the code. Also the GPL does contain clauses that stipulate that outside agreements cannot excuse anyone from the conditions of the license, see the No Surrender of Others' Freedom section.
Also keep in mind that you can download the RHEL ISOs for free without a dev license from this page: https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download You can't update the packages, but you can install that version of RHEL on your computer and use it. So anyone grabbing that ISO has legal right to the source code for the base system.
I maybe wrong but even the ISO images require a Red Hat account. I know they do as I just tried via clean VM.
Regards
Phil