Yes. That's the intent, that if you have some code (such as your devops pipeline) which is used to provide some service to an end user, the end user is able to

Yes. That's the intent, that if you have some code (such as your devops pipeline) which is used to provide some service to an end user, the end user is able to use/modify/redistribute that code to provide the same service without you being able to obstruct what they do.