[drewcrawford]

> Red Hat. They not only do not prohibit one from distributing source code and the patches they apply to it

Of course they prohibit it. e.g. from [1]

> This EULA does not permit you to distribute the Programs or their components using Red Hat's trademarks, regardless of whether the copy has been modified. You may make a commercial redistribution of the Programs only if (a) permitted under a separate written agreement with Red Hat authorizing such commercial redistribution, or (b) you remove and replace all occurrences of Red Hat trademarks.

from [2]

> Distributing the Software and Services (or any portion) to a third party outside the Portal or using the Software and/or Services to support a third party without paying for each Instance is a material breach of this Agreement even though the open source license applicable to individual software packages may give you the right to distribute those packages

from [3]

> Any unauthorized use of the Subscription Services is a material breach of the Agreement, such as... (d) using Subscription Services in connection with any redistribution of Software

[1] https://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/licenses/GLOBAL_EULA_RHEL_Engli...

[2] https://www.redhat.com/licenses/cloud_CSSA/Red_Hat_Cloud_Sof...

[3] https://www.redhat.com/licenses/GLOBAL_Appendix_one_English_...

[SwellJoe]

Your first quote covers trademarks. That is unrelated to source code. CentOS ships with a different set of trademarks. If you want to rebuild and redistribute the RH sources, you remove the trademarks. That's well understood and well within the terms of the GPL.

Second refers to binary builds of the software. Also well within the terms of the GPL.

Third refers to the Subscription Service which includes access to binary builds, access to a customer portal with knowledge base, private support tickets, etc.

None of these refer to distribution of source, which is explicitly permitted by Red Hat.

[drewcrawford]

> Your first quote covers trademarks. That is unrelated to source code.

Source code contains trademarks, that is why CentOS has to remove them. If you distribute the source code you get from the RHEL subscription area you have violated your RHEL agreement.

You are not in violation of the GPL, but that is precisely my point: everybody does this, and nobody (except OP) believes it is a GPL violation.

[cthalupa]

Red Hat requires you remove their trademarks before distributing the component. The trademarks are not the source code.

They do not restrict you from distributing the source code.

Grsecurity restricts you from distributing the source code.

These are very different things.