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by kakwa_ 2011 days ago
Also, RHEL is packaging pieces of software that are not under GPL/LGPL. With permissive licenses, they could probably heavily restrict source redistribution and availability.

If half the userland is not available as source (patch and packaging included), a CentOS-like project would not be possible.

Effectively, if RedHat/IBM wanted, there are a lot of dick moves which could effectively kill Rocky.