[EvanAnderson]

Are the RHEL SRPMS watermarked for individual Customers in any way? It seems like Redhat has no mechanism to stop a torrent of the SRPMS showing-up. Attribution would be exceedingly difficult. Since distribution of FLOSS-licensed source isn’t copyright infringement it’s not like they could DMCA it away.

Arguably the specfiles are able to be copyrighted. I wonder what the license is like for those.

[redundantly]

> Are the RHEL SRPMS watermarked for individual Customers in any way?

Highly unlikely. File hashing can be used to easily check for this.

[Brian_K_White]

Not no mention, source is text. Plain diff shows any differences. There is a lot of text, and so a lot of haystack to make small changes, but no way to hide them at all, and no way to break the product if the diffs are undiffed or further diffed to obscure the origin.

RH can't actually do what their trying to do, but that's less important than the fact that they want to. I can't see voluntarily having anything to do with them now. I see no value in any product or service they might offer that is worth knowingly working with someone who has exposed such a lack of integrity.