Perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't it have to be the source for an identical rpm package. If the rpm package is the binary they're distributing, than t

Perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't it have to be the source for an identical rpm package. If the rpm package is the binary they're distributing, than that's also the source they have to distribute. The gpl isn't literally about the community, upstream, downstream. The gpl is simply - if you give me a binary, you have to also give me (or ensure I have access to) the source for that binary. The source to a similar binary doesn't cut it.