It doesn't work that way, in reality. Not anyone can just bring a suit to compel compliance - and IBM has much deeper pockets anyway. So even if the suit was r

It doesn't work that way, in reality. Not anyone can just bring a suit to compel compliance - and IBM has much deeper pockets anyway. So even if the suit was righteous, it would be dead and buried long before it saw a court room. Additionally, the Kernel is only a tiny portion of the RHEL distribution. There's plenty of proprietary RH/IBM code in RHEL, and a ton of non-GPL'ed software too. Lastly, a RHEL license contract might be updated to explicitly state you are forbidden from distributing RH sources... which would kill Rocky's "work-around" while still being GPL compatible. GPL isn't some magic bullet like some people believe...